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I drew the same conclusion. Don't draw conclusions if you don't know all the facts. You have drawn a far reaching conclusion.

Cease to follow the sense of what is said. It was such a long story that I soon lost the thread.

He was talking about "the art of the possible" and trying to be "neither positive, nor negative, just pragmatic.

a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly. I still have a grievance with him about what he did last year. I would like to file a grievance at your employee.

the place where a person or thing is: Trupin is thought to be in the Caribbean, although his exact whereabouts are/is a mystery. in what part or area: Whereabouts in Madrid do you live? Whereabouts is your office, then?

(of something unpleasant) very common or frequent. The office is rife with rumors. Corruption were rife in city government. Dysentery and malaria are rife in the refugee camps. It seems to me that this whole area is rife with misinformation.

If you sign on the dotted line, you formally agree to something by signing an official document. Once you sign on the dotted line you are committed to that property.

This recipe book is worth its weight in gold - it tells you everything you need to know. Boys who can sing like that are worth their weight in gold to the choir.