man of ability

a hand / a handle, grip / a paw, foreleg / a way of acting, means / (board games) a move, play

to guide, to conduct

strips or slices

expiration of, depletion of

sharpness, cutting quality / cloth / piece, bit, strip, slice / (informal, of movement) sharpness and briskness

succeed / be successful in life

success / success in life, achievement in the world

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