staying overnight without meals
pitcher; water jug; watering can; container of fresh water for replenishing the kettle and rinsing bowls (tea ceremony)
immediate reply; quick answer; ready agreement
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else
premature joy; short-lived elation
to call together; to convene
leisure; leisure time; spare time
informant; informer; contact; Information Provider
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to mistake someone for someone else; to misread; to misjudge
one's every action; every single move; slight effort; least trouble; small amount of work
trickery; wiles; intriguing strategy cleverly designed to fool others; Machiavellism
unfounded (e.g. rumour); groundless; baseless; completely untrue
to stray into; to lose one's way (and enter); to wander into
chiffon cake; sponge cake
to help each other; to cooperate
to become exaggerated (of rumours, etc.); to become embellished
feeling restless; feeling nervous; fidgety; distracted
patching up (e.g. a failure); covering up (e.g. a mistake); glossing over
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
to start; to start up; to embark on; to get going; to commence
to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing
hard worker; hardworking person
police officer; policeman; constable
to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another
to cite as an example; to refer to; to quote
to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under
connivance; tacit consent; toleration; acquiescence
distortion; stretch; strained interpretation; technicality; casuistry; sophistry
fame; popularity; reputation
grand; heroic; sublime; fierce
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
piggybacking marketing; method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.)
remora; suckerfish; sharksucker (any fish of family Echeneidae); live sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates)