(for) the time being; (for) the present; immediate; present; (for) some time (after); checking account
weather; fair weather; fine weather
here and there; little by little; sporadically; dots; spots
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will
hey; listen; look here; I say
mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of a restaurant)
to swipe; to filch; to pilfer; to snatch; to walk off with
robbery; pillage; seizure; hijacking; plunder; extortion
wig; hairpiece (esp. to cover hair loss); toupee
to bring close; to bring near; to associate with (someone); to keep company with; to let come close
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
to become (a state, condition, etc.)
serious; earnest; honest; real; legit
venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on
frail; having a weak constitution; being in poor health
young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl; small; cute; (arch.) prostitute
patient; unhurried; leisurely
to attack; to assault; to challenge; to take on; to be bold; to be audacious
giving one's name; self-introduction; announcing one's name, rank, lineage, etc. (of a samurai on the battlefield); name given to male members of the nobility and samurai class upon coming of age; Japanese kanji reading used in names
rationality; reasonableness
to explain; to preach; to advocate; to persuade; to prevail upon; to reason with
empress (consort); queen (consort)
to thrust down; to push off
daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)
setting the table; laying the table; setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference
lung capacity; breathing capacity; vital capacity
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
to collect oneself; to cool off; to recover oneself
fall of a castle; surrender of a castle; giving up (on something); giving in (to persuasion); yielding
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
to say previously unspoken thoughts; to start saying; to court someone