putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
to be solved; to be worked out; to come loose; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. of a ban)
to take back; to get back; to regain; to recover; to restore; to recoup
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward; simple-minded; naive
to take advantage of; to impose on; to exploit; to enter (an item in a ledger); to make an entry (in an account book)
nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck
sniff-sniff (of an animal); whining; whimpering
with a sting; with a tingle; nervously; tensely; with a rip; with a ripping sound
fully prepared; all ready
to arch; to be curved; to become bow-shaped; to bend backward
aircraft fabric covering; buffing wheel; polishing mop
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to put to use; to make good use of; to exploit
to look into; to peep into; to peer into
to twist; to turn; to writhe (e.g. in pain); to twist around; to turn in one's seat
rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks (drink)
picking out; taking out; (surgical) removal; exposure
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
operation (of a machine); running; working (and earning money); workload; deployment (e.g. to a production environment); release
usually; ordinarily; always; continuous; 24-hour (operation, care, etc.); constant
type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention
dirty; vulgar; nasty; offensive; disgusting
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
to disentangle; to untangle; to unravel; to relax; to soften; to relieve (e.g. stress, tension)
outer case; casing; slip-case; slipcase; outer box
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)
to rub; to scrub; to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.); to milk; to mash (a button); to spam (a move)
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (someone's) side