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to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

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one year and a half

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smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)

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petty official

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injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity

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taxes; taxation

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fall; decrease (in income)

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up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...

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to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through

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imprisonment; incarceration

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front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)

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to disappear; to vanish

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piling up; accumulating; forming a (huge) pile; lying in piles

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to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)

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to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

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to side with (someone); to support (someone)

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many; a multiplicity of

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to wear (a sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted with (a mission); to be charged with; to have (a quality, property, etc.); to have a trace of

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to do (someone) a wrong; to do (someone) an ill turn; to take revenge; to resent; to bear a grudge

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to have a reason; to have an excuse

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product; produce; result; fruit

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to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress

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to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

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signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking

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viceroy; governor-general

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to be sacked; to be dismissed

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in-law; relative by marriage

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losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown

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being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

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while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily

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normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty

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management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

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government office; public office

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to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)

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choice; selection; option

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central government office; head office; this office

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exile; banishment

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promotion; advancement

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salary raise

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keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills

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cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike

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to bring someone to grief; to give someone hell

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even; even if ...; even though ...; because ...; as ...; with the purpose of ...

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to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter

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to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head

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big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with

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to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience

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reward; compensation; collateral; security; turning to look behind

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to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

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heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; feeling exhausted; feeling drained

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