successful execution; accomplishment; completion; fulfillment; carrying through
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
to collect oneself; to cool off; to recover oneself
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamour
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline
to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on
complication; intricacy; involution; to become complicated; to get entangled
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
how; in what way; how about; questionable
harmless but pointless; neither bad nor good
dependence (relationship); dependency (relationship)
price-earnings ratio; PER
paper (in rock-paper-scissors); disappearing completely; coming to nought; foolishness; stupidity
regular; ordinary (e.g. session of parliament); established usage; precedent; regular practice
stakeholder; stakeholders
Japanese person; Japanese people
to have a lot on one's shoulders; to bear a lot of responsibility
slight movement; slight tremor; quiver
severe; strict; tough; hard
broadcast(ing) satellite; BS; satellite television
to push aside; to brush or thrust aside; to remove; to get rid of
bluff; false show of power; bold front
doubt; skepticism; scepticism; disbelief
wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
way of reciting; way of telling a story
sleepover; overnight stay
the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; flavour of ghee; (fig.) delicious taste; Buddha's gracious teachings
one's nature; one's feelings; plain; unadorned; mere; poor
taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction
twenty-seventh day of the month; twenty-seven days