(informal, figuratively) to waste one's breath (to speak without being listened to) / (informal, figuratively) to blow smoke; to talk through one's hat (to speak about issues one doesn't understand)

to fall from grace, to fall out of favour

from one hour to the next, by the hour, from hour to hour, increasingly, progressively

old enough to

well underway, on track, coming along nicely

(transitive) to propose (to ask for someone's hand in marriage)

proposal (asking someone to be one's spouse; offer of marriage)

plural of demande en mariage

next to a car already parked on the side of a street, in such a way that one is obstructing traffic

in all honesty, to tell the truth, to be completely honest, to be perfectly honest