snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation
disposal; abandonment; scrapping; annulment; cancellation; abrogation
information; (brief) notice; letting someone know; first report; initial report
to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking
break in time; interruption; pause
whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod
to intercommunicate; to exchange (messages, vows, etc.)
kindness; intimacy; friendship
related to; in relation to
trespassing; intrusion; to barge into; to burst into; to trespass
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.); suggestively; broadly; sneeringly
to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; No. 18; eighteenth; repertoire of 18 kabuki plays
sample; specimen; pattern; model; example
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
to be taken for granted; to be generally accepted; to be the established wisdom; to be the (social) convention; to be the customary thing to do
(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
high grade; special grade; classy
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
to kill (with a weapon); to defeat an opponent; to get someone out; to arrest; to take prisoner
to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest; severe fight
waves that remain after the wind has subsided; after-effect; aftermath
fairness; impartiality; justice; objectivity
survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; (lit.) the weak are meat the strong do eat
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
successively; one after another; sequentially; one by one
to keep a watchful eye on
dropping out; falling behind; omission; being left out; falling off; coming off
back-facing; backwards; backward-looking; retrogressive; reactionary
solution; solution strategy