wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; hindrance
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
the five virtues (esp. in Confucianism); tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand; family crest in the shape of a three-legged kettle stand
while studying; presently studying
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
showy; loud; flashy; gaudy
to get angry; to get mad; to lose one's temper; to go straight to one's head (of alcohol); to feel the effects (of an illness); to lose one's wits
resignation; acceptance; consolation
(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of
characteristic; like oneself; worthy of oneself
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
being too late; losing one's final chance
nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
to fold (one's) arms; to stand by and do nothing; to look on passively
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain; to grasp (a point)
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to swallow up (in a crowd, whirlpool, the darkness, etc.); to suck in
worst; worst-case (scenario)
one has no other choice but to do what one has to do
by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
here and there; various places; all around; muddled; confused; in the wrong order
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...