(balance) scales; carrying pole; shoulder pole; thread take-up lever (on a sewing machine); spreader bar
to weigh (one thing against another); to compare (the relative merits of two options); (lit.) to weigh (something) on scales; to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow
carrying pole; shoulder pole; milkmaid's yoke
Libra (constellation); the Scales
to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow
Libra (7th zodiacal sign); the Scales
to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow
intrusive person; being intrusive; (lit.) a tinker's shoulder pole
analytical balance; direct reading balance
pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making)
(sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole