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fortified foods

clashing colors

false alarm

Daily Cup (horse race)

Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty)

having one's face revealed

child born of older parents

question to be settled first

fear of death

out-of-school learning

to get hitched

treating cloth before cutting to prevent shrinkage or expansion

drop dead

legal point of contention

area for storing (outdoor) footwear

seen in the dark or at a distance

rain symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)

pause

lobby

novelization

contingency

to trip (over one's own feet)

dealing in futures

musical composition

nature itself is a good mother

straight grain (wood)

to look dead on the inside

sick leave

to take a breather

actual sales