(idiomatic) As good as claims or reputation would suggest.

A diminutive of the female given name Beatrice

(idiomatic) Said in reply to something that one believes will never happen.

Attempting or desiring something. / Unfulfilled; frustrated in realizing a goal, ambition, etc.

One who aspires to something. / (India) One's fiancé or fiancée.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, there. / (idiomatic) To be available to provide comfort and support for someone, especially in a period of difficulty.

(idiomatic) Required to, ought to, expected to / (idiomatic, with not) Permitted to.

(chiefly in the negative) To have the enthusiasm (to do something).

The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б.

(intransitive, now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive. / (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. / (intransitive) To occupy a place.