old saw - banality, bromide, chestnut, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, hackneyed saying, old joke, old song, old story, platitude, prose, reiteration, retold story,
panic fear - alarm, awe, consternation, cowardice, dismay, dread, fright, funk, horror, panic, phobia, scare, stampede, terror ,
speed-up - acceleration, aggravation, beefing-up, blow-up, blowing up, concentration, condensation, consolidation, deepening, drive, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, getaway,
piety - affectation, affection, allegiance, ardour, cant, dedication, deference, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, false piety,
tottering - alternation, ambling, ambulation, back-and-forth, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, collapsing, coming and going, crabbed, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, debilitated, deciduous,
against the wind - against the grain, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war, athwart, contra, counter, cross, eyeball to eyeball, in opposition, in the wind, up in arms ,
insomuch as - as, because, considering, for, inasmuch as, since, whereas ,
absence without leave - AWOL, French leave, absence, bolt, cut, day off, default, departure, desertion, disappearance, elopement, exit, flight, furlough, hegira,
refrigerant - ammonia, blast-freezing, carbon dioxide, chilling, congealing, coolant, cooling, ether, ethyl chloride, freezing, freezing mixture, ice, ice cubes, liquid air, liquid helium,
slender - Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, agreeable, airy, amply endowed, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere, becoming, bonny, boyish, built,
panic fear - alarm, awe, consternation, cowardice, dismay, dread, fright, funk, horror, panic, phobia, scare, stampede, terror ,
speed-up - acceleration, aggravation, beefing-up, blow-up, blowing up, concentration, condensation, consolidation, deepening, drive, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, getaway,
piety - affectation, affection, allegiance, ardour, cant, dedication, deference, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, false piety,
tottering - alternation, ambling, ambulation, back-and-forth, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, collapsing, coming and going, crabbed, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, debilitated, deciduous,
against the wind - against the grain, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war, athwart, contra, counter, cross, eyeball to eyeball, in opposition, in the wind, up in arms ,
insomuch as - as, because, considering, for, inasmuch as, since, whereas ,
absence without leave - AWOL, French leave, absence, bolt, cut, day off, default, departure, desertion, disappearance, elopement, exit, flight, furlough, hegira,
refrigerant - ammonia, blast-freezing, carbon dioxide, chilling, congealing, coolant, cooling, ether, ethyl chloride, freezing, freezing mixture, ice, ice cubes, liquid air, liquid helium,
slender - Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, agreeable, airy, amply endowed, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere, becoming, bonny, boyish, built,