jumping-off place
North Pole, Siberia, South Pole, Timbuktu, antipodes, back of beyond, bitter end, boon docks, bottom dollar, boundary, burg, butt, extreme, extremity, fag end,
ready at hand - at hand, convenient, handy, nearby
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black pudding - bangers, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, salami, sausage, weenie ,
blue ensign - Jolly Roger, Union Jack, banner, bunting, colours, ensign, flag, jack, pennant, standard, streamer, tricolour ,
vacillating - adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable, coquettish, desultory, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful,
fluid - able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, aerodynamics, air, alterable, aqueous, atmosphere, beverage, blood, breath, changeable, chequered, cloud, damp,
kiss hands - accost, address, curtsy, greet, hail, kiss, nod, salute, shake, uncover ,
bare possibility - chance, conceivability, contingency, dark horse, doubtfulness, dubiousness, even chance, eventuality, faint likelihood, fighting chance, gambling chance, good chance, good possibility, hardly a chance, hope,
the seen - epiphany, exposure, manifestation, outcrop, revelation ,
muddleheadedness - daze, dizziness, haze, maze ,
verbatim - absolutely, accurate, accurately, authentic, candid, card-carrying, close, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, exact, exactly, expressly,
black pudding - bangers, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, salami, sausage, weenie ,
blue ensign - Jolly Roger, Union Jack, banner, bunting, colours, ensign, flag, jack, pennant, standard, streamer, tricolour ,
vacillating - adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable, coquettish, desultory, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful,
fluid - able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, aerodynamics, air, alterable, aqueous, atmosphere, beverage, blood, breath, changeable, chequered, cloud, damp,
kiss hands - accost, address, curtsy, greet, hail, kiss, nod, salute, shake, uncover ,
bare possibility - chance, conceivability, contingency, dark horse, doubtfulness, dubiousness, even chance, eventuality, faint likelihood, fighting chance, gambling chance, good chance, good possibility, hardly a chance, hope,
the seen - epiphany, exposure, manifestation, outcrop, revelation ,
muddleheadedness - daze, dizziness, haze, maze ,
verbatim - absolutely, accurate, accurately, authentic, candid, card-carrying, close, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, exact, exactly, expressly,