winning over; placation; gentle persuasion
to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures
button (clothing); push-button
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
to forgive and forget; to let bygones be bygones; to sweep under the carpet; to wipe the slate clean
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)
consistency; coherence; one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); one piece of sushi
great deed; great enterprise; great work; massive undertaking
great rival; powerful enemy; archenemy
to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)
to cause someone to worry
little more than; only slightly better than; almost the same as
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to take on a role; to take part
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to tower above (the surrounding landscape)
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly
to parry; to sidestep; to dodge
to get accustomed to using
bombarding; shelling; bombardment
(many) years; long-standing (esp. hatred, grudge); ancient
hooting; jeering; heckling
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
happy tears; tears of joy
bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme
to be uniform (in size and quality); to be uniformly good
item; something that one "just has to have"
inferior goods; defective product; defective goods
everywhere; everywhere one goes; wherever one goes
original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw
infinite loop; closed loop
established (certain) fact
greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable