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magic; conjuring; sleight of hand; legerdemain

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to steal (from a person)

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to that extent; to that degree; so much; so

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beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn

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ace up one's sleeve; trump card; secret skills; secret; (arch.) left hand

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large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate

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one's own house; own; personal; autologous

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exceptional; praiseworthy; laudable

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to have in one's dreams

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chase; pursuit; chase scene (in a movie); obsessive fan who follows a celebrity around; groupie; in (quick) succession

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unless one ...; if one does not ...

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to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough

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as it was before

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still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...

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listen!; you see; mind you; remember

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to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace

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to be closed; to be blocked; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)

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anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

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staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

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to wait impatiently for

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the throne; the crown

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to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits

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precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed

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How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

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elevator; lift; elevator (aviation)

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to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

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floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

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completely; not at all

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push button; push-button

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to sink (into); to get depressed

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to go past; to pass; to pass by

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that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage

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cellar; basement

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underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret

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reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)

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to come alive; to get going; to start to move

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(not) in the slightest; (not) at all

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(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle

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depths of the earth

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to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp

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quizzical; puzzled; inquisitive; suspicious; doubtful

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to cut into (a conversation); to interject

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subterranean tunnel

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about this time

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to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

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blunder; miss; slip; oversight

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we

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to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

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distance across; diameter

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to go back

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