to meet or find someone or something when you were not looking for that person or thing:

to give a lot of attention to one particular person, subject, or thing:

to step down hard on someone or something:

to criticize someone as soon as they have done something wrong or said something that you disagree with:

to not be loyal to someone, especially by giving away secret information about them, or to fail to do something that you said you would do:

If a person grasses on someone else, they tell the police or someone in authority about something bad that that person has done:

to be connected to, or to be about someone or something:

to return to doing, using, being, or referring to something, usually something bad or less satisfactory:

to visit a place and look at the things in it:

to start to like someone or something:

to give someone a lot, or too much, of something such as money, presents, or attention:

to invite someone to come to your house:

to give something to someone else:

to finish a relationship with someone and start one with another person:

If rain or a storm holds off, it does not start immediately.

to kill someone by hanging them by the neck from a rope, usually as a punishment for a crime:

to increase something such as a rent or price, especially by an amount that is considered to be too much:

to start to realize or understand something:

to stand and clap as someone leaves a place, especially someone who is leaving for the last time because they have graduated, are retiring, etc.

to do something very soon: