losing easily; being trounced; being beaten hands down
to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd
boastful talk about one's love life; speaking fondly about one's sweetheart; going on about one's love affairs
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
having in mind; happening to know of; idea
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
civil action; civil suit; civil proceedings
a little; some; somewhat; amount; quantity; number
problematical statement; controversial statement
to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide
to charge; to lunge; to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone); to collide with; to bump into
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
intercept; interception; counter-attack
knitting wool; woolen yarn; woollen yarn
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
addressing (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan" (considered impolite)
attaching the familiar suffix "-chan" to somebody's name
to say (something) over one's shoulder
to annoy; to cause trouble
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
recommendation; referral; endorsement
failing mark (e.g. in exam)
standby screen (on a mobile phone); (phone) wallpaper
taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with a smartphone camera); selfie; video selfie; self-taken picture
laughing embarrassedly and sticking out one's tongue
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something
blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blackened thing
to reduce (one's) speed; to slow down (driving, cycling, etc.)
shoulder (of a road); berm