on the hop



busy, employed, engaged, occupied, on duty, on the go, on the job, on the move, on the run, swing, tied up, working ,

   peculiar expression - clause, construction, expression, idiom, locution, manner of speaking, paragraph, period, sentence, term, usage, utterance ,

   press down - bear down, bear upon, beat down, burden, cast down, couch, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, darken, dash, debase, deject, depress,

   mediocre - adulterated, amidships, artless, average, bad, banal, base, betwixt and between, blemished, central, common, commonplace, core, damaged, defective,

   tribesman - ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, distaff side, distant relation, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks,

   crystallization - arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, formation, hardening, petrification, sclerosis, setting, solidification, tempering ,

   ugly as sin - blemished, disfigured, homely, inelegant, marred, plain, spoiled, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, unlovely, unsightly ,

   co-axe - cable, line, party line, trunk, trunk line ,

   killing ground - battlefield, field, firing line, front, front line, line, shambles, theatre ,

   sultry - airless, baking, bawdy, blue, breathless, broiling, burning, close, damp, dirty, erotic, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken,

   speaking of - about, apropos, apropos of, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, by the by, by the way, concerning, for example, in connection with, in passing, in point of, in re,