① He is above telling a lie.
= He never tells a lie.
= He is not at all a liar.
= He is far from a liar.
= He is anything but a liar.
= He is the last man to tell a lie.
= He knows better than to tell a lie.
② Bad weather prevented us from starting.
= We could not start on account of bad weather.
③ The problem remains to be solved.
= The problem is yet to be solved.
= We have yet to solve the problem.
= The problem is not solved yet.
④ We tried to stop him, but in vain.
= We tried in vain to stop him.
= We tried to stop him without success.
= We tried to stop him only to fail.
= We tried to stop him, but we could not.
⑤ He can't speak English well, let alone French.
= He can't speak English well, much less French.
⑥ God knows where he fled.
= Heaven knows where he fled.
= Nobody knows where he fled.
⑦ When he breathed his vows to her, as he had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, but at last she became his tool, and was in the habit of seeing him nearly every evening.
⑧ Frankly, I don't really like your plan.
⑨ Frankly, I really don't like your plan.