wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood
tough measure; firm step; strong measure
investigation (e.g. by police or prosecutors); examination; inquiry; enquiry
to insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way
ordinary; run-of-the-mill; usual
ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
actual article; goods in stock; stocks
to fall and pile up (e.g. snow); to lie thick
to control; to command; to get the better of
to take away; to carry away
harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result
to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
being beaten by one's opponent's persistence; being outlasted; running out of patience; giving in; succumbing (to)
part of a building where water is circulated (kitchen, bathroom, etc.); wet area
to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something
glass (drinking vessel); tumbler; cups (playing card suit)
raw materials; ingredients
strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
predecessor; pioneer; ancestor
primness; prim person; clear soup; water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.)
sense of relief; feeling of relief
to be able to tell apart; to distinguish; to recognize
for tears to gather in one's eyes; for tears to well up in one's eyes
one jump; one flight; (at) once; (in) one stroke
careless person; scatterbrain; birdbrain; hasty person
to quieten down; to fall silent; to cease activities; to become inactive; to lie low
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
control; management; supervision
to violate the law; to have a brush with the law; to have a run-in with the law
to manage; to control; to supervise; to crack down on; to keep under strict control; to enforce
to investigate; to examine
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
unless one ...; if one does not ...