eradication; extermination; rooting out; stamping out; getting rid of
fair and square; open and aboveboard
this (very thing); this precisely
righteous government; just rule; easy method; simple approach; orthodox way; proper way
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict
the height of folly; sheer stupidity
Bushido; samurai code of chivalry
high; noble; refined; advanced
wisdom; wit; sagacity; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
as if to say; as much as to say; as though
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
whirlwind; sensation; commotion; hullabaloo
to hide; to keep to oneself
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff
common sense; general knowledge; common knowledge
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to; pressing hard; pressing hard (e.g. with a question); taking to task; grilling
the place for; the time for; the level of
to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) somebody down (esp. with sexual connotations)
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable
to sweep away; to wash away; to dredge
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
to yearn for; to pine; to be deeply in love with
calm; composed; cool; quiet
to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose