withdraw as fighting

at leisure(free and easy)

have bellows to mend(puff like a grampus)

sing merrily and dance gracefully

lick somebody's feet

thousands of times

Trivial knowledge

feast at the public crib(hold a sinecure job and eat the bread of idleness)

perfect decorum

be obsessed by a craving for power(be overcome with a lust for power)

have lost one's youth(One's youth never returns.)

beg for pity and help

can't be refused because of one's feelings to-wards somebody

One will start thinking about changes when he is in extreme poverty

be subjected to the censure of everybody(be in the dock)

leave the darkness and embrace the brightness

come clean(make a clean breast of)

rare/strange flowers and grasses

find each other congenial

rally together to attack(attack in a group)