fenntart

• conservator, sustaining

• caveat, continuance, maintenance, proviso, reservation, reserve, salvo, support, sustenance, vindication

• preserved, reserved, upheld

• without committing oneself

• to keep afloat, to live on sg

• sitting

• to assert one's rights

• without qualification, without reservation

• implicit

• to police

• upkeep

• to take with a grain of salt

• running expenses

• to maintain the respectabilities

• to maintain the respectabilities

• to make bold with sy

• to keep one's head above water, to keep oneself above water

• to place confidence in sy, to place every confidence in sy, to trust sy implicitly

• to take a statement with a grain of salt, to take a statement with a pinch of salt

• to reserve the right of recourse

• self-preservation