to wait and see; to see how the land lies
confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
the real criminal; true culprit
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator
roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique
sticky; persistent; insistent; nagging
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
prosperity; glory; splendour; splendor; majesty; luxury
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
to strip a person of all his or her clothes; to leave someone with nothing; to leave someone penniless; to steal someone blind
to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective
to fall into disgrace with; to incur someone's displeasure
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity (philosophy)
real intention; motive; true opinion; what one really thinks
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything
to threaten; to make threats
pitiful; unfortunate; poor; unpardonable; regrettable
human power; human strength; human effort; human agency
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
large tree; big tree; huge tree
I don't care; fine, whatever; that's okay; sure, go ahead
to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
close thicket; dense forest; jungle; amazon.com
gap; difference; disparity; discrepancy
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
to slouch; to stoop; to bend forward; to lean forward
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
being extremely fond of; having a weakness for; having no eye for; being a poor judge of; having no chance (of succeeding)
leaving a matter to chance
tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
sense of touch; sense of being touched; tactile sense
brilliance; polish; lustre; luster; glossy finish (of photographs)
(metal) bar; (wooden) rolling pin