Meanings

sophistry

complete revocation

being returned (sent back) to the drawing board

openly and in broad daylight

novel written in colloquial Chinese

carte blanche

naughty boy

group (gang) of naughty (mischievous) boys

cooked white rice

dusty miller (Jacobaea maritima)

fragrant styrax

malus tschonoskii

to play dumb

strategy of close-quarters fighting

White Australia Policy (pre-1966 Australian immigration policy)

(plain) hot water

internal organs such as intestines used as food

to put a damper on proceedings (at a meeting, party, etc.)

to select someone (out of many people)

yellowish-white