mintha

• and 'twere any nightingale

• I kind of expected it

• to fit sy like a glove, to fit to a nicety

• to fit sy like a glove, to fit to a nicety

• yesterday as it were

• as stiff as a poker, as stiff as a ramrod, to be as stiff as a poker

• as much as to say

• not but that, not that

• to go through the motions, to make as if, to make as though, to pretend

• with the ostensible object of, with the ostensible purpose of

• to go through the motions, to go through the motions of sg, to simulate

• to feel as if, to feel as though

• to look as if

• you sound as if

• to feel as if, to feel as though

• it seemed as though

• not but that I pity you

• to put on the invalid

• to play the idiot

• to rain cats and dogs

• to make a pretence of doing sg