when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
pipe; tube; bobbin (in a shuttle or spinning wheel)
appearance (in a film, play, TV show, etc.); performance
chime; bell (e.g. doorbell)
non-stop talking; speaking indiscreetly; chattering; thin; flimsy
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
what kind of business; what sort of matter
main; principal; main dish; main course; main part; principal part
composition (of painting); structural outline; compositional arrangement
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex
spilt water; spilled water
Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
no return (e.g. after buying something at an auction)
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
arrangement (of music); adaptation (of a story, recipe, etc.); interpretation; arranging (objects, a meeting, etc.); organization
to drive on; to urge forward (e.g. cattle); to rouse (game from its cover); to press a tenant to leave; to evict
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
it is easier to do something than worry about it; fear overruns the danger; (lit.) it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry about it
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)
old girl; former female student; alumna; office girl
law; regulation; rule; code; agreement; arrangement
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
(street) corner; turn (in the road); bend; turning point; watershed
preservation of health; hygiene; sanitation; health education (school subject)
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
bump (e.g. on forehead); lump; protuberance; swelling
to slip out (e.g. from one's fingers); to cleanly forget
to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade
to persuade someone to consent; to entreat repeatedly; to beg; to implore
ranking; toplist (e.g. of WWW sites)
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak
to trace back to (the origins of something)
in-game premium currency given as compensation for bugs, maintenance, etc.; apologems
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability
to press a question; to cross-examine
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about