like clockwork
always, at every turn, at regular intervals, at stated times, constantly, continually, easily, effortlessly, evenly, every so often, facilely, hands down, harmoniously, intermittently, invariably,
shoot to death - blow up, brain, bring down, cut down, disintegrate, drop, fell, gun down, incinerate, lay low, pistol, riddle, shoot down, silence, stone,
close acquaintance - acquaintance, advocate, alter ego, backer, brother, confidant, familiar, fellow, fellow man, intimate, introduction, lover, neighbour, other self, partisan,
mangle - bung up, butcher, calender, contort, cripple, crush, cut, damage, deface, defoliate, deform, denude, destroy, disfigure, dismember,
nut-brown - beige, brown, brunet, chocolate, drab, dun, ecru, fawn, hazel, khaki, lurid, seal, sepia, sorrel, tan,
emigrate - depart, deport, exile, expatriate, flit, forsake, immigrate, in-migrate, leave, migrate, move, out-migrate, quit, relocate, resettle,
rubber band - baleen, battledore, chewing gum, elastic, elastomer, gum, gum elastic, handball, jumping jack, racket, rubber, rubber ball, spring, springboard, stretch fabric,
tail off - abate, ablate, bate, consume, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, die away, diminish, dive, drop, drop off, dwindle, ebb,
great year - aeon, age, cycle, date, day, generation, time ,
entwined - fretted, interlaced, intertwined, interwoven, laced, plaited, textile, woven, wreathed ,
betwixt and between - amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt, dull, fair, fair to middling, fairish, half-and-half, halfway, in the mean, in the middle,
close acquaintance - acquaintance, advocate, alter ego, backer, brother, confidant, familiar, fellow, fellow man, intimate, introduction, lover, neighbour, other self, partisan,
mangle - bung up, butcher, calender, contort, cripple, crush, cut, damage, deface, defoliate, deform, denude, destroy, disfigure, dismember,
nut-brown - beige, brown, brunet, chocolate, drab, dun, ecru, fawn, hazel, khaki, lurid, seal, sepia, sorrel, tan,
emigrate - depart, deport, exile, expatriate, flit, forsake, immigrate, in-migrate, leave, migrate, move, out-migrate, quit, relocate, resettle,
rubber band - baleen, battledore, chewing gum, elastic, elastomer, gum, gum elastic, handball, jumping jack, racket, rubber, rubber ball, spring, springboard, stretch fabric,
tail off - abate, ablate, bate, consume, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, die away, diminish, dive, drop, drop off, dwindle, ebb,
great year - aeon, age, cycle, date, day, generation, time ,
entwined - fretted, interlaced, intertwined, interwoven, laced, plaited, textile, woven, wreathed ,
betwixt and between - amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt, dull, fair, fair to middling, fairish, half-and-half, halfway, in the mean, in the middle,