it was as much as sb could do to do sth

it was as much as sb could do to do sth used to say that someone only succeeded in doing something with great difficulty某人尽最大努力也只能做某事:•He looked so stupid, it was as much as I could do to stop myself from laughing.他看上去真傻，我好不容易才没让自己笑出来。

• pay sb / sth ↔ back
• groomsman
• boiler-rooms
• be out the window
• gruffier
• extrasomatic
• wobbulation
• Wrt
• ecesis
• defacer
• community police
• under one roof
• Braddocks
• debtor
• antelopian
• trysting place
• burst mode
• rift lake
• lingual tonsil
• fasten on/upon
• on one’s own responsibility
• improvvisatore
• weather gage
• pronounces
• bookmaking
• make no mistake (about sth)
• Saturdays
• Igbira
• make bold
• interdendritic corrosion
• inartistically
• segment
• self-propulsions
• Mazzoni's corpuscles
• cheapest
• synthesize
• algebraic manifold
• cloppings
• synechiae
• heat unit
• reverse engineer
• broken windows
• Anthicidae
• strike someone from the rolls
• crab cactuss
• idle squander one's time
• Cath
• weather chart
• Goniatitida
• treasonously
• escherichias
• nematode
• salol
• nonrepeating decimal
• bursals
• silver nitrite
• fluidify
• blue pointer
• longitudinal baffles
• nuci-
• educationalists
• donbas
• fibrinogenic
• red.
• equis
• not to speak of
• at the same time
• self-unloading ship
• lead someone a hard chase
• in anticipation
• piecers
• corollas
• push sb's buttons
• marking pen
• Wick.
• clamberings
• electrically
• unassailableness
• suffocate
• ribo-
• rediscount rate
• squalidity
• pipe cutter
• be open to debate
• a good/bad sailor
• go to waste
• sodium thiosulphates
• (that's a) good idea / point / question
• round the corner
• metacommunications
• cokes
• revolving fund
• labor union
• take a bow
• not a breath of air
• white trash
• Athanasian
• forecastle deck
• yodelled
• ring plain