bridge building; mediation; go-between; intermediary; (through the) good offices (of someone)
leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef); omakase
letter; missive; note; mail
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
impossible; unlikely; improbable
conviction; belief; confidence
messenger; envoy; emissary
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
to take measures; to work out a plan; to lecture; to read aloud; to confer
alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)
sanity; consciousness; soberness
now (while the time is ripe); while one still can
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
distrust; mistrust; insincerity; impiety; faithlessness
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
to grab (someone) by the collar; to size (someone) by the lapels
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
victim; injured party; sufferer
something's wrong (with someone); not right (in the head); not oneself; crazy; nuts
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
to gain weight; to put on weight
opposite side; reverse; (on the) other hand
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up; to dampen
to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes
several people; some people; a few people; a number of people
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
(power of) understanding; comprehensive faculty
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)
to stop; to abort; to discontinue; to close
to proceed in a logical manner; to go through the proper channels