make up (the) leeway

make up (the) leeway Brit. struggle out of a bad position, especially by recovering lost time 〈英〉（尤指以挽回失去时间的方法）摆脱困境。

• another bite at the cherry
• olive skin / complexion
• armorizing
• spit out
• step on it（或step on the gas）
• drug supremo
• metachemistry
• grand tourer
• warning track
• umbilication
• cotypes
• filmized
• take time by the forelock.
• street credibility
• on account
• four-flusher
• striped basses
• make out of whole cloth
• Iranian
• find favour
• ecchondroma
• epithalamium
• little bighorns
• tetramethyldiarsines
• introspect
• hateless
• biodeteriorations
• ovibovine
• boilerplate language
• make it a rule
• chastity belts
• squatter
• distribute into
• rejigged
• take a leaf from/out of sb's book
• continental shelf
• biochip
• ocarinists
• segregation distortion
• thallium hydroxide
• weather contact
• night vision goggles
• thalassaemias
• outbye
• say yes
• Chargaff's rule
• antiquings
• flap trap
• economically / politically / scientifically etc illiterate
• alcoholicity
• Brown Vs.Board of Education
• Christiana
• apocopated
• stereo tuner
• lifting body
• James
• great white ways
• snake oils
• jinker
• perennating
• Mauritius hemp
• objectifications
• feedings
• retaliations
• drone away
• chorea
• insuperableness
• a very Thomas
• absorption factors
• a bag of bones
• super-duperest
• anaphylaxis
• play your cards right
• gum-shield
• post-fordism
• de jure
• nanisms
• Dear Sir / Sirs
• cryoresistive
• hard reader
• drop a hint
• pilot test
• dinky-di
• fancyworks
• enchanted by
• minor bend
• extendibility
• scandium sulfide
• slingman
• santon
• substitute mode
• gangsman
• telephotographer
• spread reflection
• chemical shim
• put a cap on
• Press Council
• Parsiism
• quasi-periodic
• Bernadette