in a roundabout way

be biased(heed and trust only one side)

pound the table and stand up

as far removed as heaven is from earth(poles apart)

a phase or two

not a single armoured warrior remains

frightened out of one's wits

as right as a trivet(safe and sound)

animal courage(reckless courage; foolhardiness)

dead poor

Gunfire licked the heavens.

a phase or two(half a word)

make frivolous remarks about a woman's appearance(be overcritical; find fault with)

full of flaws

a friend in earlier days when one was poor(friends in days of poverty)

a person's overstimating his strength

make a show of readiness to fight

have no fixed abode because of constant traveling(float about free as duckweed)

fabrication founded upon nothing(dream up)

as far apart as sky and sea(as far apart as the sky and the abyss)