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to take candy from a baby; to accomplish something with ease; (lit.) to twist a baby's arm

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

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one-two punch; one-two (soccer pass); wall pass; one-two finish; competitors from the same country or team finishing first and second; one ball two strikes

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to the extent possible; as much as possible; as far as possible; whenever possible; wherever possible; if (at all) possible

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to distance oneself (from); to keep (something or someone) at a distance; to maintain a distance (from)

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pause; interval; distance; range; suitable time; appropriate opportunity

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before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

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iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards

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point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes

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to visit and comfort or console; to go to see (e.g. someone in hospital); to ask after (e.g. someone's health); to attack; to hit; to strike

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reflexes

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to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye

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gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; wide open; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); gobbling up

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usually; under usual circumstances

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to sustain a serious wound

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temple (on side of head)

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demon; daemon (in Unix, etc.)

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all (there is); as long as there is

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permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis

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direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

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still more; even more; much more; increased; greater

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defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)

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fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest

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heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air

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to flicker; to quiver; to waver; to sway

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fall; falling down; inversion; reversal; getting upset; losing one's presence of mind

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forte; strong point

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evaluation meeting; postmortem session; review meeting

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to resound; to echo; to reverberate

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scream; shriek; shout; exclamation

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(opening of a) wound; cut

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boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. of a debate); excitement; soaring (of prices); shooting up

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retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking

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darkish; dusky; dark; murky

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detoxification; counteracting poison; neutralizing poison

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revival; resuscitation; revitalization; rejuvenation; regeneration

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to rain incessantly; to downpour

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suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action

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stimulant; stimulative; excitant

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to print (on); to insert (an illustration); to stencil (a pattern); to instill (a thought, impression, etc.); to imprint (e.g. on one's subconscious)

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out of the question; outrageous; impossible; irrelevant; not pertinent

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focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving

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to scratch; to claw

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to writhe in agony

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trusting too much; overestimating ability

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-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action

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fatal; deadly; mortal

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to cross one's mind; to occur to one

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sortie; sally; attack

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thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned

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