holiday-making



festivity, gaiety, hoopla, jollity, joviality, merriment, merrymaking, revelry, whoopee ,

   mercy - acceptance, act of grace, act of kindness, benefaction, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, charity, clemency, commiseration, compassion, condolence, consideration,

   side path - byway, departure, deviation, digression, episode, excursion, side road, sidetrack ,

   destroying - baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, deleterious, desolating, destructive, devastating, disastrous, disposal, fatal, fateful,

   pointlessness - absurdity, aimlessness, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, colourlessness, deadness, dismalness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, fatuity,

   welfare payments - Medicaid, Medicare, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, bounty, depletion allowance, dole, fellowship, grant, guaranteed annual income, help,

   account stated - account, balance, reckoning, score, tally ,

   matador - assassin, bravo, butcher, button man, cannibal, cut-throat, desperado, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, garrotter, gorilla, gun, gunman, hatchet man,

   abstention - abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, continence, cop-out, desuetude, disuse, evasion, fast, fence-sitting, fish day,

   in the blood - atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive,

   pin money - allowance, change, small change ,