having served one's purpose; being finished (with); business settled
seahorse; sea horse; hippocampus; walrus
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless
to become speechless; to be at a loss for words
to be entwined; to be involved
to insure (something); to come up with a back-up plan; to hedge one's bets; to play it safe
solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
possession; retention; maintenance
tough; stubborn; determined; severely; heavily; hard
universal; omnipresent; ubiquitous
blood relationship; blood relations; being genetically related
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
male help; male labor; man's handwriting; (arch.) kanji
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
son of a distinguished family; son of a noble
laws and regulations; legislation
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment
to exorcise; to cleanse; to purify
attitude to life; form of existence; way of life
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to
to relax; to make oneself comfortable
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
to smear with blood; to kill
beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); assistance; help
baht (Thai monetary unit)
to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil
disappointing (end, result, etc.); sad; miserable; tragic; fleeting; transient
to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate
with my own (two) eyes; with these very eyes