quack (charlatan)

large sum of money, great cost

to lose (possession of something) / to miss an opportunity etc. / to lose a person (following their death), be bereaved of someone

to cheat, deceive

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(idiomatic) to be at a loss

(sumo) A distracting clap, literally fool-the-cat, loudly clapping hands in front of an opponent’s face to distract them at the start of a sumo match.

trompe l'oeil