coffee room (hotel, office building, etc.); tea room
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
to look upwards; to look up
unusual; unconventional; mold-breaking; outside the box
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slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence
lingering (usu. feeling, emotion, etc.); continuing (to); still (...)
exactly the same; exactly as is; without any change
speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received
to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with
to the best of my ability, poor though it be
to detain; to check; to restrain
tasks; things to do; errand; business (to take care of); affairs; engagement
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
distance; journey; itinerary; path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process
course; route; path; process; means
inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; (lit.) the trouble of coming (going)
one's person; around one's person
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
(arch.) difference (from one another); (arch.) different thing; (arch.) other; unusual; extraordinary
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
acknowledgment; acknowledgement; letter of thanks
one stroke (of a brush); a few lines (of writing); note; writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush); parcel (of land); same handwriting
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
post; official position; managerial position; executive position
to fuss over; to be particular about; to be obsessive about; to be fixated on; to obstruct; to hinder
plain; plateau; tableland
bolt from the blue; great surprise
distant land; remote location; distant province
confusion; dismay; consternation; panic
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you