at a disadvantage; in an unfavourable position; having poor prospects; standing little chance
to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect
to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)
incredible; unbelievable; terrific; impressive
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
luxury; extravagance; treat (i.e. at somebody's expense)
one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit
to read (a person's) physiognomy
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
on the bone (meat, etc.); unboned; skeletal system; skeleton
chicken meat; fowl; poultry; bird meat
idle gossip; foolish talk; yarn
something's wrong (with someone); not right (in the head); not oneself; crazy; nuts
even so (expressing frustration, etc.); still
willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
to be awash with; to teem with; to be full of
reconciliation (between warring nations); (making of) peace
lacking a plan; haphazard
to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of
shady; underhanded; questionable
cooperativeness; spirit of cooperation
quirk of fate; twist of fate; (an) irony
competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; (lit.) 8 faces and 6 arms
knowing no bounds; showing no signs of stopping or slowing down
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
approval; acceptance; recognition; private seal; signet
to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp
to stand on tiptoe; to rise in the world; to become arrogant
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
free (of charge); gratuitous
to pay with one's own money; to pay out of one's own pocket