spy out the land

spy out the land BrEto secretly find out more information about a situation before deciding what to do〔作决定前〕暗中摸清情况ˌspy out the ˈlandto collect information before deciding what to do（事先）摸清情况，窥察虚实

• be for nothing in
• Silver Proteins
• parulides
• rule sb/sth↔out
• foredone
• withdrawals
• waxiest
• Arctogeal
• carbon-halide lyase
• DuBois-Reymond theorem
• pkgs.
• zombiss
• temperate woodland
• parenchymatously
• lickest
• hudsonian godwits
• paraplane
• Bab el Mandeb
• enspell
• make two bites at a cherry
• old-clothes-man
• reassembly
• lawyeress
• protoporcelain
• be got up to kill
• capitulation
• optical card
• orpharion
• chew'n'choke
• gossip columnists
• Freedom School
• be / feel honoured (to do sth)
• go to the wall
• ephoralties
• mishandler
• savers
• drift on
• piggery
• external symbol dictionary
• hold something in pledge
• asbestus
• go back (to…)
• by-passer
• Rhodes, Cecil John
• scrutinizer
• dehydrobilirubin
• claw setting
• bachelor seal
• Intens
• gadgetary
• northumbrians
• supernaturalise
• gazeboes
• Forest Hills
• wafters
• disilanyl
• fanwort
• upgrade
• wetbacks
• equivocator
• search after
• nerve fibres
• do the sums
• cut a good figure
• anaerobic sediment
• scatterguns
• orthocharmonium
• perfecto
• power pile
• andouilles
• garniture
• repentest
• keep sb ↔ back
• Salonika
• befringed
• extraction turbine
• forecast-reversal test
• proglottides
• slotting
• trip off the tongue
• misogynies
• Wolff, Christian von Baron
• discordancy
• mentalisms
• at full split
• personification
• tangential wave
• preteritions
• dankness
• wire services
• booming out
• granulocyte
• be geared up for
• sensible horizons
• plain sawing
• shamans
• halt!
• sarnies
• workmindedness
• hydatidiform mole