certain reasons; certain circumstances; professional constraints; (lit.) adult reasons
to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
chance; opportunity; occasion
(police) detective; criminal matter
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
mobilization; going into action; being dispatched; being sent out; being called in; turning out
to become loose; to slacken; to soften
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
behind with everything; too late; reactive
to sense; to perceive; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
diamond; (railway) schedule; timetable; diagram
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
to drag into; to pull into; to lure inside; to win over; to entice into
to the utmost; to the best of one's ability
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
target; object (of worship, study, etc.); subject (of taxation, etc.); coverage
to come apart; to unravel; to come loose; to become disarrayed (e.g. of hair)
favorite (to win); favourite; one's heart's desire; first choice; chocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
with a sudden rush; in a mad rush; all at once
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal
properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly
ice; ice cream; ice pop; ice lolly; cold; iced (e.g. iced tea, iced coffee); ice (stimulant drug)
stock; inventory; stocking up (e.g. on food); (soup) stock; stock; share; stock (point-in-time economic quantity)
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
acquisition; obtaining; procurement; getting (hold of)
swiftness of foot; fast runner; person of great talent; gifted person
I'm off (and will be back later); see you later; to go (and then come back)
ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.
pat; tap; pop; crack; cutesy suffix applied to names
rock (in rock-paper-scissors); stone; ungh; gulp; rumbling (of an empty stomach); growling
scissors (in rock-paper-scissors)
rock-paper-scissors (game); janken
to understand; to comprehend