…be humiliated by having to admit one’s defeats or mistakes…
…observe the Jewish food regulations (kashrut)…
…used to refer to a situation of fierce competition in which people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed…
…fall far behind someone in a competitive situation…
…retract what one has said, especially in a humiliated way…
…erode or destroy something gradually…
…suffer from excessive longing for someone or something unattainable…
…used to indicate that one thinks that something is extremely unlikely to happen…
…(of a company’s staff) use a product or service developed by that company so as to test it before it is made available to customers…
…deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease…
…you can’t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives…
