liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
sobriety; soberness; sober face
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
defence mechanism; defense mechanism
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
not necessarily so; is not always true
trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
as before; as ever; as it was originally
recompense; indemnity; atonement
to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be discomposed; to be upset; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!
(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all
flying column; detached force
of course; certainly; naturally
never mind!; don't worry about it
division; section; compartment; block; plot; lot