nitwit - block, clod, cluck, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, featherweight, lamebrain, lightweight,
second childhood - advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, childishness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, feebleness, green old age, hale old age,
paid - acquitted, chartered, discharged, employed, expended, hired, hireling, leased, let, liquidated, mercenary, paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, receipted,
back band - bit, blind, blinders, breeching, bridle, caparison, cinch, collar, crupper, curb, girth, halter, harness, headgear, lines,
chitterlings - bacon, butt, fat back, gammon, giblets, gizzard, ham, heart, intestine, kidney, lard, liver, marrow, pig, pork,
age of ignorance - barbarism, dark, darkness, heathenism, paganism, savagery ,
corrode - abate, ablate, atomize, bate, be eaten away, bite, break up, canker, come apart, consume, consume away, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay,
not conform - break the law, defy, disobey, disregard, dissent, drop out, flout, ignore, not listen, not mind, protest, scoff at, transgress, violate ,
mortgage holder - banker, loan shark, moneylender, mortgagee, pawnbroker ,
in snatches - at random, bit by bit, by chance, by degrees, carelessly, fitfully, haltingly, haphazardly, hit or miss, in detail, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, little by little, off and on,
second childhood - advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, childishness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, feebleness, green old age, hale old age,
paid - acquitted, chartered, discharged, employed, expended, hired, hireling, leased, let, liquidated, mercenary, paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, receipted,
back band - bit, blind, blinders, breeching, bridle, caparison, cinch, collar, crupper, curb, girth, halter, harness, headgear, lines,
chitterlings - bacon, butt, fat back, gammon, giblets, gizzard, ham, heart, intestine, kidney, lard, liver, marrow, pig, pork,
age of ignorance - barbarism, dark, darkness, heathenism, paganism, savagery ,
corrode - abate, ablate, atomize, bate, be eaten away, bite, break up, canker, come apart, consume, consume away, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay,
not conform - break the law, defy, disobey, disregard, dissent, drop out, flout, ignore, not listen, not mind, protest, scoff at, transgress, violate ,
mortgage holder - banker, loan shark, moneylender, mortgagee, pawnbroker ,
in snatches - at random, bit by bit, by chance, by degrees, carelessly, fitfully, haltingly, haphazardly, hit or miss, in detail, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, little by little, off and on,