to be playful; to gambol; to flirt with; (arch.) to have elegance; (arch.) to have refinement
big hit (with); great success; great reception; great popularity; catching on greatly
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
dressing room; green room; backstage; behind the scenes; the inside; inside affairs
lumping together (things or people); treating (everyone) alike; handling indiscriminately; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with (various things) under one head
separate; respective; different
this is why; that is the reason why; it is the case that; so; thus; with that
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)
personal (employee); employed; retained
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to enter one's ears (e.g. of water)
to feel like it; to get to think that way; to become so minded
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
paper store; paper merchant; paper seller; papermaking; papermaker
still better; even better
obi (kimono sash); obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product); band; belt; cingulum; radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days
usual; normal; long (of time); old; for a long time; for a while
simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated
to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on
(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression
youngster; boy; young Buddhist monk; young bonze; young shop-boy; errand boy
cold (to the touch); chilly; icy; (emotionally) cold; coldhearted; unfeeling
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
very much; intensely; overwhelmingly; excessively; irresistibly; without any obvious reason
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to dunk
to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
to look up; to face upwards; to turn one's face upwards