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strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)

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element (esp. component in electronics); elemental device; device; data; datum

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loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity

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to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable

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unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance

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killing two birds with one stone; serving two ends

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killing two birds with one stone

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having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism

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to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

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to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

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excessive; too much; unreasonable

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Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd); gourd (container) made from its fruit

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guaranteed; authentic; certified

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to grow angry; to display one's anger

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near future

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boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier

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to dismiss (an employee); to discharge; to divorce one's wife; to give a holiday; to give vacation time

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to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)

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to tickle; to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to make laugh; to amuse

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sweet words; smooth talk; cajolery; flattery; sycophancy

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remaining heat; residual excitement; lingering enthusiasm

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as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect

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discharge; outward flow; efflux; leak of (private) information or pictures

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behind with everything; too late; reactive

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the same as this

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to pole (a boat); to punt (a boat); to swim with (the tide); to go with (the flow, the times, etc.); to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)

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to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)

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to be hurtful; to resonate emotionally (with one)

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showing no concern at all; being not at all bothered; devil-may-care attitude

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to hold one's breath

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deliberation; (thoughtful) consideration; to consider a matter carefully

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bad move (in chess, shogi, etc.)

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gold and silver; money

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lance

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fraud; trickery; hoax; surely; absolutely; certainly

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to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up

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to become inverted; to become reversed

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to insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way

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misjudgment; misjudgement

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evacuation; withdrawal; revocation; repeal; retreat

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opportunity; chance; time; occasion

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East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

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uncle

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military gains; war results; fruit of battle

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return of something; repayment

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new type; new style; new model; new strain (e.g. infectious disease)

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bartering

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hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack

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sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic

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to crawl out of; to creep out of

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