be close on/upon

be close on/upon极靠近;差不多：That man is close upon sixty，but he is as strong as a youth.那个人年近六十岁，但是身体跟青年人一样强壮。

• stuffed shirts
• life-and-death
• cetuss
• soft focusing
• Rollerbladed
• entrails
• weather stain
• cajones
• go on the dole
• box scores
• blowcase
• heys
• protanopias
• quarrelers
• fraught
• harmers
• ham-and-eggs
• close/shut the door on sth
• sales pitch / talk
• delta particle
• appropinquate
• horsetail tree
• malassimilation
• impoundage
• rock out
• Bul
• secondary protection tube
• philosophistical
• in shame
• be looking for sb / sth
• coal mines
• isotropism
• cholagogic
• officialises
• vintner
• what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh（或 blood）
• transom-window
• theoretically
• decartel(l)ized
• stand for
• ciconiidaes
• chassed
• bobwhites
• sqn.ldr
• have (got) something, nothing, a lot, etc. to do with sb/sth
• BAeE.
• abscondence
• give sb the kiss of life
• newly / freshly minted
• carry coals to Newcastle
• two-faced
• strike alarm into
• keep your shirt on
• aspherically
• bake sale
• nonfeeding
• wild Irish
• bicer
• workerist
• cogenerate
• calamine brass
• plaster ground
• enargites
• glue together
• look into space
• smoke ring
• plate block
• (as) mad as a wet hen
• Hodotermitidae
• excalate
• gumbooted
• tut-tuts
• genital cord
• bedight或bedighted
• microprocessor
• the worm in the bud
• furrower
• saw sth↔off
• recoveries
• decimalise
• machinist's file
• sb's alter ego
• lapping
• glacialists
• scoff
• transcortical
• Frenchwomen
• disciplinings
• synapsids
• bagwash
• adont hinge
• parlors
• patriliny
• EMP
• monkey
• alpine firs
• Berzelius, Jöns Jacob
• overproduces
• man-hauling
• booby prizes