to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)
look who's talking; you're one to talk; you can talk
at a young age; while still young
to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)
parent-child relationship
lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
(a person's) appearance; looks
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
seeming to want to say something; looking like one wants to give one's opinion
look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes
to resonate emotionally (with one); to strike a chord in one's heart
abrupt; sudden; unexpected
(a) jump; splashes (usu. of mud); upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo); close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup; hane (move)
to take responsibility (for a fallout); to accept the blame; to take the blame
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
cunning; craft; guile; slyness
personal history; background; career
to get damaged; to get chipped; to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt (reputation)
exactly alike (in appearance); like two peas in a pod; (practically) identical; spitting image (of); carbon copy (of)
liking something; being partial to something; -phile
nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious
item; heading; category; headword (in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.); entry
disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
to drive mad; to make insane; to cause a malfunction; to put out of order; to derail (a plan, etc.)
to breathe in; to inhale; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
dwarf (esp. in folklore or fantasy literature)
missus; missis; proprietress (of a shop, restaurant, etc.); landlady; hostess
very young; little; childish; immature
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time