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no sooner ... than ...; hardly ... when ...; as soon as

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cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang

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parched; dried-up; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering

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reproachful; resentful; spiteful

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one's heart's desire; one's dearest wish

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with a bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace (spend money, work); with great vigor

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final selection (e.g. of applicants); final screening; shortlisting

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courage; bravery; pluck; nerve; grit; guts

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taking in; harvesting

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to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate

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love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland

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language of flowers; floriography; flower symbolism, e.g. red roses mean love

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intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart

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being concerned about or mindful of

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support; backing; endorsement; support; holding up; propping

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coolness; calmness; composure; all right; fine; OK

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it's best to; it's safest to; there's nothing better than

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sharp parting remark; parting threat

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just you wait and see (as a threat)

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to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged

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retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)

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to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)

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to rebuke; to scold harshly

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to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

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indication; expression; display; displaying; representation; (copyright) attribution

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to raise one's head; to come to the fore; to rise into importance; to gain strength; to rear its head

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fraud; trickery; hoax; swindle; counterfeit; fake

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right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

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advocate; proponent; supporter

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to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

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sly; cunning; sneaky; miserly; mean; stingy

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Oh well; yeah; good; OK

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advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful

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firmly; absolutely; flatly; by far; far and away; by a long shot

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hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently

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light and shade; shade (of colour, color); depth (of flavor); complexity; strength and weakness (of flavor)

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as anyone can see

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wax

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day by day; by the day; (arch.) daily; (arch.) every day

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grinning; smirking

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to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

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with a clink; with a flop; suddenly; all of a sudden

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sausage

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cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)

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lunch; midday meal

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fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she

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handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler

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to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)

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(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum

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with a crack; with a snap; firmly; sharply; precisely; properly

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