remoteand desolate(desert)

as blind as a bat(short sight)

apathetic(depressed)

give order by look or glance

open the door to foreign trade(open-door)

get one's tail up(keep one's tail up)

peerlessly wonderful in one's time

conduct an evil activities openly

be worthy of the reputation

minutely(all the time)

ample

be bankrupt in reputation(fall into disrepute)

be dead to the wide(be under the table)

cannot get the hang of something

remember for life(not to forget it in all one's life)

rashly(anxious)

be something more in name than in reality

in the pink of health(have a high colour)

appear to be reluctant(with a look of disinclination)

clear the way for