With countless changes

admit (allow) no explanation to be offered(allow of no excuse)

Not be punctilious

to confound right and wrong

not completely understand

conform to no conventional pattern

The enemy's courage runs out and our own is high.

Aidcomes from everywhere.

to have a near escape(Bataan death march)

joy tempered with sorrow

cannot be trained

not to be in the know

as good as dead(be half dead and half alive)

From public to private

black and white(in sharp contrast)

be not worth mentioning(be too mean to be worthy of mention; beneath discussion or mention)

having put on flesh again on the thigh(a sign of regret at his inactivity)

to make a fruitless trip

dare not aspire to somebody's acquaintance

Bare-handed