overserious; deeply sincere; very earnest
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
to chop; to cut off; to chop off; to hack off
to chase; to run after; to pursue
(tear) to pieces; (rip) apart; with a rattle; with a shudder; feeling an electric shock
sad news; news of a death; death notice
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
creative work (e.g. artistic, literary)
fragment; broken piece; one of the same group; accomplice; one of a pair; counterpart
Alphard (aka Alpha Hydra)
to crack a joke; to tell a joke
criticism; commentary; review
elucidation; explicit statement; specification
robbery; pillage; seizure; hijacking; plunder; extortion
childish; childlike; immature; infantile
hegemony; leadership; initiative
to rove; to prowl; to go cruising
to win and advance to the next round
focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to pick up
cool; indifferent; apathetic; cold; cold-hearted; heartless
to raise objections; to complain; (to have the right) to say anything
to slip into (a place) for the purposes of having sex (e.g. a lover's house, hotel, red light district); to shack up with; to shut oneself away at home (due to lack of money)
urbanization; urbanisation
not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is
one's just deserts; one's just desserts; one's just reward; what one deserves; comeuppance
conversation (just) between you and me; confidential talk
piling shame on top of shame
to come off; to slip down; to slip off
not budging an inch; to stand one's ground
anywhere; here and there; common; run-of-the-mill; ordinary
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180 ml; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 square meters; one-tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel; final desperate tactic
having serious consequences; costing dearly; cannot get away with it; for free; for nothing; easily
critical (condition); serious
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
8th in rank; eighth sign of the Chinese calendar
to accept someone's challenge; to take up the gauntlet
trivial matter; trifling thing; something ordinary
coagulation; freezing; solidification
culmination; acme; height; peak; ultimate; perfection