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to knit (one's eyebrows)

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empty-handed

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to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home

2

investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking

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(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

1

changing for the better

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to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by

1

to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)

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to put one's hand on; to touch

1

to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing

1

to dismantle; to demount; to take something away; to detach

1

understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy

1

now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game

1

banquet; dinner party

1

getting nauseated; getting angry

1

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

1

putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation

1

go home; get out

1

trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon

2

you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only

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or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still

2

difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress

1

to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself

1

to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely

5

to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent

1

other people's affairs; somebody else's problem

1

manner of speaking; verbal argument; objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee); rumor; rumour

1

severe; harsh

3

rubbing the wrong way (e.g. a cat); irritating

1

to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride

2

to do one's best; to put forth every effort

1

to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder

1

omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; intentional negligence; tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

2

to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish

1

several months

3

next (year, spring, etc.); coming; since (last month, etc.); for (20 years, etc.)

1

anger; resentment; indignation; chagrin; irritation

1

explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring

2

go that far; to that extent

6

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

1

things; everything

1

to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

1

to hide; to keep to oneself

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lungs; bottom of one's heart; vital point

2

to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

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(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of

3

a little bit; a little while

1

to drizzle; to become bleary (eyes)

1

to compare with the eye

1

quarrel; dispute; argument

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