pedal point



dominant, key, key signature, keynote, major, minor, tonality, tonic ,

   free from - cleanse, deliver, discharge, free, purge, release, remove, reprieve, suspend ,

   on the rocks - aground, bankrupt, broke, broken, busted, castaway, destitute, failed, foundered, grounded, hard and fast, high and dry, in receivership, insolvent, marooned,

   by-end - aim, butt, destination, end, game, goal, mark, object, objective, prey, pursuit, quarry, target ,

   rhapsodise - acclaim, be enthusiastic, bubble over, carry on over, drool, effervesce, enthuse, extol, go on over, gush, gush over, idealize, make much of, praise, rave,

   bipartisanship - collaboration, collectivism, collusion, common effort, common enterprise, communism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, duet,

   get leverage - crowbar, lever, prize, pry, wedge ,

   indestructibility - constancy, continuance, durability, eternity, immortality, infinity, invincibility, permanence, stability, timelessness ,

   do a mischief - abuse, afflict, aggrieve, befoul, bewitch, blight, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage,

   hard palate - alveolus, apex, back, blade, larynx, lips, palate, pharynx, speech organ, teeth, tip, tongue ,

   not at all - at no hand, au contraire, by no means, far from it, from scratch, in no case, in no respect, in no way, in no wise, never, no, no matter what, nohow, none, not a bit,