heart of oak



backbone, bone, bottom, brick, cement, chutzpah, concrete, diamond, flint, granite, grit, guts, heart, horse, intestinal fortitude,

   light lunch - bite, collation, refreshment, snack ,

   sorely pressed - desperate, hard pressed, hard up, in extremis, pinched, straitened ,

   airily - any old way, anyhow, carelessly, cheerfully, clumsily, gaily, gladly, haphazardly, happily, heedlessly, hit or miss, hopefully, joyfully, lightly, messily,

   badge of infamy - bar sinister, baton, black eye, black mark, blot, blur, brand, censure, disparagement, imputation, onus, reflection, reprimand, reproach, scandal,

   granting - accommodation, accordance, allowing, award, awarding, bestowal, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, contribution, deliverance, delivery, donation, endowment,

   paralyse - amaze, anaesthetize, appal, astonish, astound, awe, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blunt, boggle, bowl down, bowl over,

   unworthy of one - beneath one, cheap, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disgraceful, gutter, humiliating, outrageous, pitiful, sad, scandalous, shameful, shocking, sorry,

   tight-fisted - avaricious, cheap, cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, economical, frugal, grasping, greedy, hamper, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near,

   gastric - abdominal, anal, big-bellied, caecal, cardiac, colic, colonic, coronary, duodenal, intestinal, pyloric, rectal, visceral ,

   eye-opening - amazing, apocalyptic, astonishing, breathtaking, educational, overwhelming, revealing, showing, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, surprising, talkative ,