miserable; wretched; lonely; dreary; shabby; comfortless
master; Your lordship; My lord; husband
to resonate emotionally (with one); to strike home (words, etc.); (lit.) to stab in the chest
nothing to be afraid of; trivial; not amounting to much; can't do anything
(not) ever; (not) at all; (not) on any account; deepest bottom of the earth
to persuade someone to consent; to entreat repeatedly; to beg; to implore
in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
adverse circumstances; adversity
piece of cake; a walk in the park
to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)
haste; hurry; expedition; speed; dispatch
(arch.) like that; (arch.) as such; yeah; uh-huh
mackerel tabby (cat); grey tabby
up in a tree; in the trees
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
bigeye thresher (species of thresher shark, Alopias superciliosus)
everybody; every last one of them; all
head and body; heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long
adult cat; fully-grown cat
one way or the other; either way
combat readiness; battle readiness; fighting trim
prediction; prejudgment; presupposition; foregone conclusion
to beat time; to mark time
to pester someone (e.g. to buy something)
right to decide; having say (in a decision)
both; together; jointly; simultaneously
back to back; discord; feud; opposite sides of the same coin
to strain (one's ears, eyes); to prick up (one's ears)
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
the right person in the right place
hygienic; healthy; healthful; sanitary
very bad condition; awful state; night-soil reservoir dug in a field; night-soil pot; earthenware vessel; earthen urn
to comb out; to brush; to untangle; to unravel
self-deprecating routine; self-deprecating joke
laughable; ridiculous; funny; comical
sensitive (person, heart, etc.); delicate (issue, problem, etc.); sensitive; fragile; delicate; delicate (fabric, shade, flavour, etc.)
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
to chip off; to scrape off; to prune
humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)