be absent without leave(do a guy)

make black white(confound right and wrong)

be bold enough to run the extreme risks for sex(be utterly reckless in sex)

gain/win considerable name

at every turn(all times and all places)

regard as wastes

love the good and shun the evil

a business running at a loss

of few words(in the habit of saying very little)

realities if life as birth,old age, illness and death

questions as to who is right and wrong

a hundred to one(nine tenths)

Just keep your hair on.

elaborate others' theory and not to create

talents everywhere

the road to ruin(or destruction)

buy people off(buy popular support)

dodge about

be slack and perfunctory(behave in an easygoing way)

deep hatred for the enemy