necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
three colours; three colors; triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits; triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits
pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit)
you; before (a god, nobleman, etc.); in front of
considerably; greatly; a lot
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
to go with (a companion); to hang out with; to do together
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
exactly; just; right (when); just (as); just (about to); on the point of
papier-mâché; something that looks good superficially; sham
woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
hostess (in a hostess bar)
what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything
to leak out (of a secret); to come out; to be exposed (of a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to get away (of a fish)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to try to do; to attempt to do
to flatter; to curry favor (with); to fawn (on); to flirt (with; a man); to make eyes (at)
nothing but; except; no more than
means; way; method; measure
to be silent; to say nothing
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
to shut (someone) out; to leave out; to freeze out; to exclude; to ostracize; to give the cold shoulder
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
feeling; sense; impression
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care