sore throat - asthma, black lung, bronchitis, cold, croup, emphysema, flu, hay fever, influenza, laryngitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, quinsy, rheum, silicosis,
boozy - afflicted, bent, blind, blotto, cock-eyed, disguised, drunk, elevated, fried, fuddled, high, illuminated, intoxicated, jagged, lit,
down to bedrock - badly off, distressed, embarrassed, hard up, impecunious, narrow, out of pocket, pinched, poor, reduced, short, squeezed, straitened, strapped ,
clear the trade - close out, convert, dump, liquidate, sell, sell out, sell short, unload ,
diatribe - abuse, address, after-dinner speech, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, chalk talk, contumely, debate, declamation, eulogy, execration,
soak in - absorb, adsorb, assimilate, be glimpsed, blot, blot up, come through, dawn on, digest, drink, drink in, drink up, engross, filter in, get across,
luxuriant - abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arabesque, baroque, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out,
needling - encouragement, incitement, insistence, instance, pressing, pressure, torment ,
imp - Ariel, Oberon, Puck, Titania, appendage, arm, bad boy, bad fairy, banshee, bough, branch, brat, brownie, buffoon, bugger,
cattle plague - anthrax, blackleg, distemper, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, mange, pip, rabies, rot, scabies ,
boozy - afflicted, bent, blind, blotto, cock-eyed, disguised, drunk, elevated, fried, fuddled, high, illuminated, intoxicated, jagged, lit,
down to bedrock - badly off, distressed, embarrassed, hard up, impecunious, narrow, out of pocket, pinched, poor, reduced, short, squeezed, straitened, strapped ,
clear the trade - close out, convert, dump, liquidate, sell, sell out, sell short, unload ,
diatribe - abuse, address, after-dinner speech, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, chalk talk, contumely, debate, declamation, eulogy, execration,
soak in - absorb, adsorb, assimilate, be glimpsed, blot, blot up, come through, dawn on, digest, drink, drink in, drink up, engross, filter in, get across,
luxuriant - abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arabesque, baroque, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out,
needling - encouragement, incitement, insistence, instance, pressing, pressure, torment ,
imp - Ariel, Oberon, Puck, Titania, appendage, arm, bad boy, bad fairy, banshee, bough, branch, brat, brownie, buffoon, bugger,
cattle plague - anthrax, blackleg, distemper, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, mange, pip, rabies, rot, scabies ,