air con; air conditioner; air conditioning
favorite; favourite; habitually used
made in Japan; Japanese-made
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
all night long; all through the night
pent-up resentment; grudges and hard feelings
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
care; precaution; guarding; caution
a lot; many; (not) much; (not) many; almost (none)
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
to betray; to turn traitor to; to double-cross
you (plural); all of you; you all
with all due respect; I'm sorry, but ...; I'm afraid ...
watchful waiting; careful supervision
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
to have a guilty conscience; to have (something) lie heavy on one's conscience
to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated
to be unable to stand; to be weak in the knees; to be paralyzed (e.g. with fear) (paralysed); to be dumbfounded
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
-less; lacking; non-existing
please!; I'm asking you; for heaven's sake
to mistake someone for someone else; to misread; to misjudge
senior; elder; person older than oneself
failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
head-on fight; head-to-head contest; serious contest
life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death
to unfold; to unroll; to open
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
total energy; all efforts
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying