1 to be

2 thus

3 so

4 therefore

5 then

6 only

7 thereupon

1 to pile up

2 to heap up

3 a mass

4 pile

5 heap

6 stack

7 large amount

1 to pull

2 to play (a bowed instrument)

3 to drag

4 to draw

5 to chat

1 to hold hands

2 to shake hands

1 (coll.) to have diarrhea

1 lit. piles of work and papers (idiom); fig. accumulated backlog of work

1 to pile up like a mountain (idiom)

2 a mountain of (paperwork etc)

3 a large number of sth

1 lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)

2 fig. to borrow sb's prestige

3 to take the name of a great cause as a shield

1 to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family

2 tied down by family obligations

1 to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently