1 (slang) very close same-sex friend

2 gay partner

1 base (of operations)

2 industrial or military base

3 al-Qaeda

1 (slang) bromance

2 gay love

1 basic

2 fundamental

3 main

4 elementary

1 basically

2 on the whole

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

1 to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom)

1 like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom)

2 no clue where to start