Oliveboard mistakes

Blandishment

Sweet talk, Flattery , or a kind act used to persuade someone

a sop to Cerberus

A bribe or concession given to pacify a troublesome person

Livery

Company paint schemes on vehicles | historic servant uniforms | horse-stabling services

Saturnine

Gloomy

Live on a borrowed line

Depend on borrowed time

Quizzical

Expressing curiosity, puzzlement, or amusement.

Laugh at one’s sleeves

To laugh secretly

Loose your marbles

Going insane

Underscore

To emphasize or highlight

Flies in the face of

Challenges or goes against

Astute

Having or showing an inability to accurately assess situations

Balmy

Characterised by pleasantly warm weather

Mercurial

Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

Keep our fingers on the pulse

Be constantly aware of the most recent developments

Desultory

Lacking a clear plan, purpose or enthusiasm

Throwing down the gantlet

Issuing a direct and open challenge

Obviate

To remove a difficulty, problem or the need for something

Impetuous

Rash

Enervate

to weaken or drain energy ; debilitate

The ruler or a person who is a tyrant

Despot

Exasperate

Infuriate

Assuage

To relieve

Mollify

To calm or soothe

Reprimand

To scold or criticise

Laud

To praise

stenographer

One who writes short hand

Plumassier

One who works or deals in feathers for apparel

Straining every nerve

Making every possible effort

Oversimplification

Presenting a complex issue as simpler than it actually is

Lugubrious

Morose ; mournful

Jocund

Cheerful

A bee in the bonnet

To be obsessed with something

Play it by ear

Improvise as a person goes

Inconspicuous

No easily seen

Conspicuous

Easily seen or noticed

Flippant

Not serious enough about things that are important

A curate’s egg

Something partly good but largely spoiled by its bad parts

Ensnared

To catch trap or gain control of someone or something

Ingenuous

Showing simplicity and candidness

Rustic

A person without manners or polish

Dehort

Strongly dissuade someone from a course of action

Foment

Instigate or stir up

Pussilanimous

Coward

Decorous

Polite and restrained

Solicitous

One who is eager or anxious to do something