cannot be compared with; no match for
creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit
to hit hard; to punch hard; to give a hard blow; to wallop; to sock
class; heading; group; category
each and all; every single one; everybody
rough (estimate, manner, etc.); crude; broad; loose; careless (work)
stand-offish; distant; not frank; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)
sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging
your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you
course (e.g. of lectures); academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)
practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis (philosophy)
immediately; right away; on the spot
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
boy; son; baby boy; young man
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
the same generation; coeval
opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes)
exactly as stated; verbatim
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
presence; sitting with; being with
to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond
faint; trance; swoon; stupefaction
to the limit; to the full; as much as possible; with all one's might
outrageous; reprehensible; rude; insolent; nefarious
someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel
to kick about; to kick around; to scatter (a crowd, the enemy, etc.); to rout
arguing back and forth; bandying words; verbal tug-of-war
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
to bite at; to snap at; to nibble; to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into
to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in
outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits
accompanying; travelling together; traveling together; same bank
to hesitate; to hold back; to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down