1 to slip away

2 to escape in stealth

3 to skate

1 ash

2 dust

3 lime

4 gray

5 discouraged

6 dejected

1 gray

2 ash gray

3 grizzly

4 pessimistic

5 gloomy

6 dispirited

7 ambiguous

1 big bad wolf

1 discouraged

2 downhearted

1 lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence

2 sth malevolent returns to haunt one

1 to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants

2 to toady

3 boot-licking

1 gloomy and dull (idiom)

2 boring and gray

3 unpleasantly murky

1 head and face filthy with grime (idiom)

2 covered in dirt

3 dejected and depressed

1 lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)

2 fig. to be annihilated

3 to vanish in a puff of smoke