with a bellyful



crammed, disgusted, engorged, fed up, full, glutted, gorged, jaded, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, sated, satiated, satisfied,









   beat the game - come through, live through, persevere, triumph, weather, weather the storm, win out ,

   power grab - abduction, apprehension, arrest, capture, catch, coup, dragnet, grab, hold, kidnapping, nabbing, seizure, snatch, taking in ,

   breeching - back band, bearing rein, bit, blinders, blinds, bridle, caparison, cinch, collar, crupper, curb, gag swivel, girth, halter, harness,

   hit show - Passion play, ballet, bomb, charade, cliff hanger, dialogue, drama, duologue, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, give-away, happening, hit,

   polity - Everyman, John Doe, Realpolitik, Tammany Hall, administration, ally, bimetallism, body politic, bossism, buffer state, captive nation, career politics, circumspection, citizenry, city-state,

   on the run - apace, astir, at it, at once, at work, busy, by forced marches, cursorily, employed, en route, engaged, expeditiously, feverishly, full of business, furiously,

   convergence of events - climacteric, clutch, crisis, critical point, crossroads, crunch, emergency, exigency, extremity, hinge, pass, pinch, push, rub, strait,

   sinews - beef, brawn, elasticity, mainstay, muscle, muscularity, musculature, physique, pillar, sinew, tone, voluntary muscle ,

   delay - abide, adjourn, afterthought, arrest, await, back-pedal, backwater, be still, bide, bide the issue, bind, block, blockage, blocking, bog down,

   transducer - amplifier, anvil, component, crucible, engine, generator, lathe, machine, melting pot, mortar, motor, retort, test tube, transformer, tube ,