• to die hard

• to die hard

• ill weeds grow apace

• easy come easy go, ill-gotten gains seldom prosper

• baleful, ruinous

• emergency brake

• fire hydrant

• forbidding, of evil omen, portentous, sinister

• have evil forebodings

• extreme

• pernicious anaemia, pernicious anemia

• to look darkly at sy

• to go by the board, to go to waste, to go, went, gone, to perish, to run to waste

• fusilier, marksman, marksmen, rifle-shot, rifleman, riflemen, shot

• artist, virtuoso, virtuosi

• ferryman, ferrymen

• linguist

• to ride out a storm, to weather

• sniper

• to fall foul of

• tubercular