- to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality; to adopt an original approach
- guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc); a home away from home
- incurable; incorrigible; beyond cure; hopeless
- not to engage in honest work; to ignore one's proper occupation; not to attend to one's proper duties
- to lose consciousness; unconscious; in a coma
- to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
- by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
- over many years