If something one wishes to be done cannot be commanded done, one must find another way to achieve one's goal.

(idiomatic) To pass the most critical point of some process; to pass out of danger. / In the game of cribbage, to reach the point at which one is safe from being lurched.

There will always be problems in a romantic relationship.

Intended or liable to be published.

(idiomatic) A defining moment; a cutoff point.

Alternative form of right as rain

Of a group with the same or similar characteristics; of the same kind.

present participle of do the hard yards

simple past tense of blow the whistle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blow the whistle