boasting; big talk; bombast; Australian English
quickly; briefly; rashly; carelessly; (flowing) in trickles
preparing to flee; being ready to run away
work; book; (a book) by; obvious; striking
to benefit; to profit; to gain; to reap rewards
to worry; to fret; to get anxious
to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in
foreshadowing; preparation; precautionary measures
remarkable ability; mastery; brilliant technique; go-getter; resourceful person; wizard
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)
sharing one's lot with another; being in the same boat
heaps; a lot; plenty; with a thud
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
being caught in one's own trap; being hoisted by one's own petard
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
retreat; retirement; depression (hole)
fixed period; fixed term; regular; periodic; fixed-term commuter pass; fixed-term deposit
rote memorization (memorisation); rote learning; indiscriminate memorizing (memorising)
antique store; curio store
single-pronged vajra; tokko; dokko; cloth of a tokko pattern
I'm telling you this for your own good; here's some friendly advice
(lucky) find; bargain; good buy; treasure trove
while there is life, there is hope; without life, there is nothing; don't waste your life
knock on wood; touch wood; heaven forbid; God help me; absit omen!
compound sentence; sentenced formed of two independent clauses; important cultural property; important cultural asset
transactions; dealings; business
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
to tip off (e.g. the police); to inform (on); to squeal; to rat
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
to bend; to wind; to twist; to zig-zag
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
to push through (a crowd, vegetation, etc.)
shoulder (of a road); berm