to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit
to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
kitchen waste; food scraps; raw garbage
to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get
dullard; indecisive person
to be unable to stand; to be weak in the knees; to be paralyzed (e.g. with fear) (paralysed); to be dumbfounded
of late; lately; this part; this point; here
conspiracy; collusion; complicity
to get worked up; to be eager (enthusiastic); to rouse oneself
becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality
lumping together (things or people); treating (everyone) alike; handling indiscriminately; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with (various things) under one head
backbiting of a coward; grumblings of a loser; (lit.) the far-off bark of a retreating dog
established (existing) policy (procedure(s))
advance guard; vanguard; athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)
slight movement; slight tremor; quiver
to boost; to force up; to push up
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
competition; rivalry; something worth doing
retreat; withdrawal; retirement
to give one's life; to lay down one's life
cease-fire; truce; armistice
taking no notice; ignoring; not even looking at
to install (a person) in (someone's) place
to rant and rave; to raise hell
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
nothing special; nothing significant; not a problem
mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
to boil up; to seethe; to get excited; to be in an uproar
to fight to the bitter end
winning after defeat seems certain; coming from behind to win
to be pretentious; to put on airs; to show off
to make use of; to lend money
capture (of enemy weapons, supplies, etc.); seizure; plunder
to backfire; to have a harmful result