to fail within sight of success (idiom) / last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom) / fig. keep out of danger
darkness fell (falls, had fallen etc)
lit. a wealthy person does not sit under the eaves (idiom) / fig. a rich man does not expose himself to danger
to hang down / to dangle / to be suspended
uvula (biology)
(of clothes, hair etc) to hang down and cover / to flow down
lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom) / fig. greedy to seize sth
mother-to-infant transmission
(bird species of China) red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
gastroptosis
prolapse
pituitary glands (at the base of the skull)
pituitary gland
plumbline
see 饞涎欲滴|馋涎欲滴[]
Coventry, city in the West Midlands, England
(literary) to set a shining example (for one's subordinates or future generations)
Eritrea (Tw)
Maastricht (Netherlands)
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