speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
standing for; advocating; championing; professing (to be)
to butter up; to try to get on the good side of
while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
hanetsuki (Japanese badminton); battledore and shuttlecock
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
a little while later; for a little while; some time later; for some time; presently
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
number one; first; best; most; game; round
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
to open one's eyes wide (in astonishment, wonder, etc.); to be wide-eyed; to be amazed
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
to add (to); to add on; to append
guard on sword, polearms, etc.; flange; brim; visor (e.g. of a hat)
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
hostility; antagonism; opposition
even if ...; even supposing that ...; also as ...; also for ...; also from the position of ...
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
contract; compact; agreement
to forget to say; to forget to mention
to stop walking; to pause
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
retreating figure; appearance from behind
ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
performance (of a duty); fulfillment (of a promise); fulfilment; execution (of a contract); discharge; implementation
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind