1) “Heart of Darkness”
full text: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ConDark.html
2) to wither BUT: whither Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
3) eagle-eyed
4) scrutiny/to scrutinize
5) to swoop on
cf.
at/in one fell swoop
6) the prey/to prey (on)
cf. fall prey to/bird of prey
7) to put to shame
8) sleuth/sleuthing Sleuth,
the movie: www.sonyclassics.com/sleuth/index2.html
BUT: sluice
9) Mayfair hotel: “Mayfair”: www.touruk.co.uk/london_mayfair/london_mayfair.htm
10) ludicrous
11) elongated stretch limo (or: stretch limousine)
12) smoked glass window
13) to draw up (here: “a car draws
up”)
14) instantly (“instant coffee”)
15) for once
16) quarry (2x)
17) to elude/elusive
18) populist tycoon in leisure, services and showbiz
19) to take centre stage
20) to emerge as
21) the driving force
22) the/its old deference to [to defer - to delay/to defer to: to agree to
accept]
23) to bow [bau] and scrape
distinguish
carefully between: to bow/the bow [bau] and the
bow
24) the masters of the market place
25) stronger bonds than
26) steely detachment
cf.
(semi-)detached house
27) to strip away
28) the screens that surround
cf. smoke screen
29) titled bankers
30) Lombard Street boardroom. “Lombard Street”: www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/lombard_street_6aa.html
31) mogul (cf. tycoon #16 above!)
32) quest cf. Monty
Python: (The Quest for the) Holy Grail:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMxWLuOFyZM
33) to coincide with
Black Knight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjEcj8KpuJw
34) taxing (here!)
35) (to see the new) lie of the land IDIOM:
a) "lie" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lie+of+the+land
b) "lay" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lay+of+the+land
36) late in the composition of
37) to submit evidence
38) the Hutton inquiry "official webste":
www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry
39) lit up the concealed pathways of power
40) like flares in the night sky
41) nous [ “nu:s” ] [from
Greek nous: mind, intellect]
BUT:
noose [!]
42) to thread sth. through sth. else
43) to devastating effect
44) actually (false friend)
45) unaccountable (here!)
46) Number 10 (check also for Number
11!): "Downing Street": www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
47) disclosure cf. to disclose/undisclosed (word list
4, #9)
48) to have (or: to catch) a glimpse of
49) his own trade
50) to come in for (a drubbing/criticism etc.)
51) pundit
52) to make or break cf. make or mar
(word list 1, #34)
http://de.bab.la/woerterbuch/deutsch-englisch/to%20make%20or%20mar.html
www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/make-or-break.html
53) to elicit [here:
fear and dislike; also: comment,
response, sympathy etc.]
54) with sth. goes sth.
else
55) a very meagre appetite for
cf. meagre/meager (word list 4, #10)
56) to subject sb./sth. to sth.
57) mocking analysis
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