jailing



captivity, close arrest, confinement, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, galleys, hard labour, house arrest, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, internment,

   silvered - ashen, chalky, dapple, dappled, dingy, dismal, dreary, dull, dusty, frosted, frosty, glaucous, grey, grizzle, grizzled,

   easternmost - east, easterly, north, north-east, north-west, north-westerly, northerly, northern, occidental, oriental, south, south-east, south-west, southerly, southern,

   amount to - add up to, afford, aggregate, aggregate to, balance, break even, bring, bring in, come to, come up to, comprise, contain, correspond, cost, ditto,

   falling barometer - danger sign, gathering clouds, high sign, omen, precursor, red flag, red light, skull and crossbones, stormy petrel, symptom, thundercloud ,

   age of consent - adulthood, full bloom, legal age, majority, manhood, maturity, prime, prime of life, virility, womanhood ,

   the great - Establishment, VIP, baron, big gun, big name, bigwig, brass, celebrity, dignitary, dignity, elder, father, figure, great, great man,

   shoplifting - abstraction, annexation, appropriation, conversion, conveyance, embezzlement, fraud, graft, liberation, pilfering, pinching, poaching, scrounging, stealing, swindle,

   follow the book - comply, conform, defer to, hearken to, heed, keep, mind, obey, observe, stay in line, submit, toe the mark ,

   chain reactor - breeder, furnace, lattice, pile, power reactor, reactor, rod ,

   on relief - beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, deprived, disadvantaged, fleeced, impoverished, indigent, mendicant, needy, pauperised, stripped, underprivileged ,