lotus-eating
abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, dormancy, entropy, indifference, indolence, inertia, languor, latency, laziness, passivity, shiftlessness, sloth, slowness,
party line - bimetallism, cable, co-axe, coaxial cable, concentric cable, economic self-sufficiency, free enterprise, free trade, laissez-faire, line, managed currency, non-interference, non-intervention, nullification, party principle,
cut up rough - carry on, cut up, go on, horse around, raise hell, whoop it up ,
lay before - advance, affront, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, challenge, commend to attention, confront, confront with, dare, defy, encounter,
gut with fire - condemn, confound, consume, damn, decimate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, gobble, gut, incinerate,
Cerberus - Hades, Loki, Minos, Satan, watchdog ,
curtain fire - cross fire, fire, fire-power, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, gunfight, gunfire, musketry, shellfire, shoot out, shooting ,
verily - actually, assuredly, certainly, clearly, decidedly, demonstrably, factually, for a certainty, for real, forsooth, historically, in all conscience, in fact, in reality, in truth,
protective custody - care, charge, cover, custody, defence, eye, guard, guarding, hold, keep, keeping, lee, preservation, protection, refuge,
unresponsiveness - abstraction, alienation, anaesthesia, anxiety, apathy, autism, callousness, catatonic stupor, chill, coldness, compulsion, dejection, depression, detachment, dullness,
plain - Bohemian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, affable, agricultural region, air space, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apparent, arable land,
cut up rough - carry on, cut up, go on, horse around, raise hell, whoop it up ,
lay before - advance, affront, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, challenge, commend to attention, confront, confront with, dare, defy, encounter,
gut with fire - condemn, confound, consume, damn, decimate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, gobble, gut, incinerate,
Cerberus - Hades, Loki, Minos, Satan, watchdog ,
curtain fire - cross fire, fire, fire-power, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, gunfight, gunfire, musketry, shellfire, shoot out, shooting ,
verily - actually, assuredly, certainly, clearly, decidedly, demonstrably, factually, for a certainty, for real, forsooth, historically, in all conscience, in fact, in reality, in truth,
protective custody - care, charge, cover, custody, defence, eye, guard, guarding, hold, keep, keeping, lee, preservation, protection, refuge,
unresponsiveness - abstraction, alienation, anaesthesia, anxiety, apathy, autism, callousness, catatonic stupor, chill, coldness, compulsion, dejection, depression, detachment, dullness,
plain - Bohemian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, affable, agricultural region, air space, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apparent, arable land,