to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
to love (someone weaker than oneself); to be affectionate towards; to treat with tender loving care
coming and going; recurring (esp. thoughts)
crude; unrefined; coarse; ill-mannered; rude; insensitive
to chip; to nick; to break; to lack
hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy
to ooze; to exude; to percolate; to soak through
being in abstraction; being dazed; being absentminded; stargazing
out of control; out of hand; unmanageable; nothing one can do
one's heart; one's feelings; one's inner thoughts; one's mind
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
set; set meal; combo-meal; hairdo
flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick
master; teacher; stable master
impudent; brazen; shameless; bold
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable
(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely
high spirits; gleeful mood
for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance
inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive
to add (to); to add on; to append
training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha
once; one time; exclusively; only; alone
to leave words (behind one, e.g. after death); to say (for posterity); to utter last words; to leave some things unsaid
with ... as a start; taking advantage of; inspired by
so what?; what of it?; and?; why do you ask?
strong pressure; heavy pressure
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart; to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)
to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)
blood spilt from the body; blood circulating within the body (often as a metaphor for strong emotion or hot-bloodedness)
audience (with a person of high standing); eye-level
nowadays; in this day and age
to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care
to darken; to get dark; to be clouded; to be hidden (behind clouds)
unskillful; childish; immature; naive; artless; clumsy
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...