crack lice and talk

open and aboveboard(fair and square)

Hide the truth from others

indifferency

hair stands on end

The horses and men are strong.

be advanced in age(long in the tooth)

famous mountains and mighty streams

pour earnest advice into somebody's ears

have illicit relations with women(always having affairs with women)

strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom); no shortage of advisers on strategy

create out of nothing(trump up)

Ants climb up and down the locust.

look at each other with a helpless air

no persons of dubious character coming to the family

Severe wind miasma rain

Be entirely absorbed

be completely ignorant of(be in the darkest ignorance)

seek power and wealth by fawning on the foreigners

to be dazzled and stunned (idiom)​