split second - breath, breathing, coup, crack, flash, half a jiffy, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment,
not coming - outrageous, preposterous, undeserved, undue, unmerited, unwarranted, unworthy ,
the sticks - North Pole, Siberia, South Pole, Timbuktu, antipodes, back of beyond, black belt, boon docks, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dust bowl, farmland, frontier, grass roots,
subtract - abate, abrade, abrupt, abstract, add, alienate, bate, calculate, cast, cast off, cast out, cipher, compute, curtail, cut adrift,
swim in - adore, appreciate, bask, delight in, devour, eat up, enjoy, freak out, gloat over, groove on, indulge, like, love, luxuriate, luxuriate in,
colourless - abstract, achromatic, aloof, anaemic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, blah, blanched, bland, blank, bled white, bloodless, blurry,
do business - barter, be employed, buy and sell, carry on business, change, deal, exchange, follow a trade, give in exchange, have a job, horse-trade, interchange, keep up, labour, moonlight,
contents - acknowledgements, adjunct, appurtenance, aspect, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, card index, catch line, catchword, chart, circumstance, colophon, component,
send out rays - beam, bedazzle, blaze, blind, burn, daze, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, glint, glow, lustre,
black spot - bloom, blooping, definition, flare, ghost, grid, image, noise, picture, rain, rolling, scandal, scintillation, shading, snow,
not coming - outrageous, preposterous, undeserved, undue, unmerited, unwarranted, unworthy ,
the sticks - North Pole, Siberia, South Pole, Timbuktu, antipodes, back of beyond, black belt, boon docks, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dust bowl, farmland, frontier, grass roots,
subtract - abate, abrade, abrupt, abstract, add, alienate, bate, calculate, cast, cast off, cast out, cipher, compute, curtail, cut adrift,
swim in - adore, appreciate, bask, delight in, devour, eat up, enjoy, freak out, gloat over, groove on, indulge, like, love, luxuriate, luxuriate in,
colourless - abstract, achromatic, aloof, anaemic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, blah, blanched, bland, blank, bled white, bloodless, blurry,
do business - barter, be employed, buy and sell, carry on business, change, deal, exchange, follow a trade, give in exchange, have a job, horse-trade, interchange, keep up, labour, moonlight,
contents - acknowledgements, adjunct, appurtenance, aspect, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, card index, catch line, catchword, chart, circumstance, colophon, component,
send out rays - beam, bedazzle, blaze, blind, burn, daze, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, glint, glow, lustre,
black spot - bloom, blooping, definition, flare, ghost, grid, image, noise, picture, rain, rolling, scandal, scintillation, shading, snow,

