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have quick wits

To understand and know someone's mind or situation even though they have said nothing.

see someone's face; study someone's face

To study someone's feeling or attitude.

show a sign; show a face; hint

To express one's thought through a facial expression, behavior, etc., not saying it directly.

see someone's face; study someone's face

To study someone's feeling or attitude.

know everything with one's wit

To guess and know someone's mind or the situation.

have no sense and know nothing

To not understand someone's mind or the situation at all.

eat a meal offered unwillingly; eat another's salt

To live uncomfortably while being attentive to others' remarks, behavior, and thoughts, and not expressing one's thoughts.

like a squirrel going round and round in a treadwheel

An expression to describe a situation where one remains in the same state which does not improve at all.

none other than

No other reason than.

none other than

The very something which nothing else can be.

none other than

No other reason than.

sleep with one's legs stretched[straightened out]

To sleep in a carefree mood without any concern.

saying that again; in other words

To rephrase something that was said ealier in easier words.

saying that again; in other words

To rephrase something that was said ealier in easier words.

be seen differently

For something or someone to be considered in a new way.

as it comes

Regardless of this or that.

go to the guillotine

For one to be executed or for one's crime to be judged.

disappear like dew on the guillotine

To be executed by guillotine and die.

have[experience] the taste of the sweets and the bitters

To go through all of the good times, bad times, happy times, painful times.

not say a word whether it is sweet or bitter

To show no response.