preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery
well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
(apportioning) in small amounts
simple and clear; plain and simple
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
with stealthy steps; with noiseless footsteps; on tiptoe; stealthily
standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered
to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
hearsay; learning by hearsay
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
late at night; small hours of the morning
to adjoin each other; to sit side by side
barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)
to be stumped; to be at a loss; to be at one's wits' end; to be fed up; to be tired (of); to be unable to bear
origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
tough guy; wild one; fearless fighter
artificiality; pretence; contrived act; commission (of a crime); feasance
SM; S&M; sado-masochism; shopping mall
fetish; passion; enthusiasm
string instrument; stringed instrument
words of praise; eulogy; compliment
shyness; bashfulness; shame
young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters
few decades; many decades; several decades
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
to be no match for; to not hold a candle to
bad job; poor workmanship; bungle
pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person
no exception; without exception; always the same
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
to be reminded of; to call to mind
by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat