to make oneself pleasant to everybody; to smile at everybody; to try to please everybody; to make things pleasant
raising and lowering; praising and blaming
(doing something) in tears
abdominal chills; diarrhea; diarrhoea
taking a hem up; hemming up
stinging (barbed) words; harsh language
to get moldy; to get mouldy; to get out-of-fashion
to make something be done in time
rising intonation; upward inflection; rising tendency; upward trend; feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar
in a bad temper; cranky; crabby
haramaki; bellyband; stomach band; torso armour that opens at the back; haramaki
capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; shichimi pepper
high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
article to be delivered; present
pop-pop boat; toy boat with simple steam impeller
handstand; headstand; being upside down; being in reverse
reliability; trustworthiness; dependability
to come to like a lot; to fall in love
snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants
thermos bottle; vacuum flask
to act like a grown up; to pretend to be an adult
paving (a road); surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.); pavement
to help each other; to cooperate
ridge of earth between rice fields; ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel; footpath between rice fields; causeway
to shorten; to cut short; to trim; to cut down on; to reduce; to scrimp on
to put back in a good mood; to cheer up
knitting; knitted material; crochet
to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide
brief moment; blink of an eye (time span)
expenses; costly; expensive
before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme