(a) /'pi:ki/ looking pale and sick
You look peaky. Is everything all right?
Sarah is tired and peaky. I think she needs to see her doctor.
invent or reconcile
She made up a story to cover her absence,
stop defending a position
She backed down when she realised she was wrong.
informal
in the future = later, after an activity or situation has been continuing for a period of time
sym: down the road
There may be more costs further down the line.
Now, three years down the line, we’re beginning to see the problems with the treatment.
I have discussed extending the session by 30 minutes with both the pool and Harry and Amie (who will be covering me for my maternity leave from the summer term) and unfortunately, it is not something we can pursue due to school timings - anyone arriving early will appreciate the number of cars already on site until about 15:50 and from a teaching perspective already 16:00 can be difficult for some with traffic while already the 18:30 slot is the least popular and opening a 19:00 class is likely to be very difficult to sustain so we would just be creating a further problem down the line. All of this was confirmed yesterday.
Lots of things will have changed a few years down the road.
A marketable product is a long way down the line.
eliminate
We need to root out corruption.
The government is determined to root out crime.
It took years to root out the problem.