The inner sanctum of the Temple in Jerusalem. / (by extension) The most sacred place within a sacred building. / (informal, humorous) One's private retreat, inner sanctum.

(idiomatic, archaic) A most worthy person. / (idiomatic) A decent, dependable, unpretentious person.

(physics, classical mechanics) A measure of a rigid body's resistance to change in its angular velocity around a given axis.

As though stating a fact. / As though the situation is normal and not unusual; not dramatically or fancifully.

(idiomatic) The best or most desirable among some selection.

Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.

To walk, decomposed, to stress the fundamentality of the task. / (idiomatic) To move forward, progress steadily.

An unusually difficult or dangerous situation in which a government gives itself special powers or suspends normal legal procedures so as to regain control.

(idiomatic) (originally) by the authority or power of; (now) because of; on the grounds of; by reason of.

(idiomatic) To ridicule; to make fun of.