nigh on

nigh on old-fashionedalmost几乎:•There were nigh on 40 people there.那里有近 40 个人。

• powder metallurgies
• pass all understanding
• orra
• big frog in a small pond
• talari
• invite sb in/up
• suetoniuss
• iron lungs
• disc wheel
• snottiest
• enterorrhagia
• milady, miladies
• formularized
• growth factors
• barren
• crank time
• bring something (down) about one's ears
• carboyed
• the dishes
• jingo
• pawned
• optical branching
• Fermi energy
• nicoles
• anfractuosity
• wasteless
• noctis
• retaliated
• fish protein concentrate
• frat houses
• speech sounds
• thereats
• Gause's law
• beat/bang the drum (for sb/sth)
• self-enamoured
• Ebonics
• athletic heart
• color stripper
• mesoamericans
• USRC
• live on
• reanimated
• subjunctive
• overachievers
• make a Virginia fence
• officiant
• brachygraphies
• for fear
• hangtags
• bundobust
• Morgan's classification of galaxies
• flap word
• Sapygidae
• eraser
• by marriage
• fuel-switching
• rebaptizing
• foramen of Winslow
• ERW
• varier
• reprimand
• affectation
• Pontiac fever
• rigidising
• hm
• put in your two cents' worth
• double-troubles
• Charophyceae
• good-fellowship
• Stachybotrys
• axilemma
• tlr.
• ontologies
• overblowing
• shell jacket
• electronic billing computer
• panlogism
• subtropicals
• chole-
• doughnut foundry
• lunar rover
• synangium
• one-digit subtractor
• swallet
• bulldogged
• prewaring
• Ezra
• metal filament
• doublespeaker
• triple agents
• bread bag
• zoophilists
• ion detector
• threadiness
• multiple transplant
• megavitamins
• stadials
• harebrainedness
• puzzle over sth
• hypokinetic