lance



amputate, auger, axe, bayonet, bisect, bite, bore, bowl, broach, butcher, carve, cast, catapult, chop, chuck,

   deal out - accord, administer, afford, align, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, array, award, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, broadcast, collocate,

   meetly - dispassionately, duly, equally, evenly, fair, fairly, justly, properly, rightfully, rightly ,

   well-deserved punishment - correction, deserts, discipline, infliction, judgement, nemesis, pain, pay, payment, penalty, penology, retribution, scourge, what for ,

   unexceptional - acceptable, adequate, all right, average, bourgeois, common, commonplace, conventional, garden, garden-variety, general, middle-class, natural, naturalistic, no great shakes,

   bluish - azure, blue, cerulean, livid, sapphire, sky blue ,

   jump over - bounce, bound, buck, clear, hop, hurdle, jump, leap, leapfrog, negotiate, pounce, pounce upon, skip, spring, start,

   little chance - bare possibility, dark horse, improbability, long shot, off chance, outside chance, small chance, unlikelihood ,

   pouts - blue devils, blues, cat, dumps, mumps, sulks ,

   in hock - debt, embarrassed, encumbered, in the red, indebted, involved, pledged, posted, put up, tied up ,

   beguilingly - exceptionally, extraordinarily, falsely, incredibly, marvellously, miraculously, remarkably, wonderfully ,