The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

The missionaries forcibly converted the native people to Christianity

The drug is sold as a cure for a variety of ailments

in the black

The club is full.

The plot thickens

the beast in man

The plaintiff has prevailed

The main topic of conversation was his new girlfriend

The band begins to play

The political conditions could not/hardly be more favourable

to be in the limelight

The punishment should always fit/match the crime

The university erroneously notified dozens of applicants for its teacher training course that they had been accepted.

in the blink of an eye

the key to the mystery

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

The continual coming and going

The twins are the spitting image of each other

The three bank robbers are still at large

The smell lingers for about three weeks

to be the wipping boy

At the same time I simply fell in love with Cologne

The report proved [to be] false

The weakest goes to the wall