middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
tool; implement; means; furniture
to take a breath; to take a short rest
phew; whew; huff; whoo; woohoo
string; cord; leash; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
party (social gathering); party (group of people participating in an activity, esp. mountain climbing); (political) party
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline
to insert; to include; to incorporate; to install; to embed
bright and beautiful; gorgeous; showy; prosperous; flourishing; thriving
to come to know; to perceive; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of)
to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in
to call (someone) to (the door, phone, etc.); to tell (someone) to come; to call up (on the phone); to invoke (e.g. a subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out; to hand (over); to give
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
make-up; makeup; cosmetics; decoration; dressing; veneer
manner of using one's hands
pin (e.g. hairpin, safety pin); (bowling) pin; pin; flagstick; (a) one (on dice or Japanese playing cards); first; top
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
to drain; to pour; to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift; to wash away; to carry away; to broadcast
that far; so far; to that extent; stop!; not one step further!
inquiry into; enquiry into; prying (into); investigation; search; exploration
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; having no intention of ...
with a start; in a fright; alarmedly
white makeup powder; (face) powder
to dust; to remove dust; to slap; to hit (with the palm); to use up money
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to deceive; to cheat; to falsify; to misrepresent; to evade (a question, taxes, etc.); to dodge
seeing the light; being awakened to the truth; having the scales fall from one's eyes
beauty or ugliness; personal appearance; looks
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
secondary; of secondary importance
correction; revision; compensation (e.g. to a pendulum)
correction (of a fault, defect, flaw, etc.); remedy; rectification; redress; reform; straightening (of teeth)
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)