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1 before the beginning (of sth)

1 heretofore

1 before

2 formerly

3 previous

4 ago

1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)

1 to repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice (idiom, from Analects)

1 to substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior

2 Might makes right.

1 Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.

1 accustomed to

2 used to

1 to regard it as an honor (idiom)

1 to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country

1 frugality makes honesty (idiom)

1 no way to get by

1 to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)

1 give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)

1 to use one's neighbor as a drain

2 to shift one's problems onto others (idiom)

1 worried to death (idiom)

1 frugality in order to prevent destitution (idiom)

1 use Chinese collaborators to subdue the Chinese (imperialist policy)

1 to hold one's breath (in anticipation) (idiom)

2 to anxiously await

1 Book of Esther