control; check; restraint; inhibition
feeling uneasy; very worried; very anxious; on tenterhooks; on pins and needles
dead of night; shades of night; black of night
convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience
to scrutinize; to scrutinise
very strange; bizarre; weird; mysterious
fierce attack; furious attack
diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; narrow (e.g. thinking); small
to kick about; to kick around; to scatter (a crowd, the enemy, etc.); to rout
long ago; a long time ago; already
clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight
to take out; to take a handful of; to grab and throw; to turn someone out (of house, room, etc.)
mode (musical mode, mode of probability distribution, state of physical system); fashion
to change; to exchange; to convert; to renew; to throw a switch; to replace
(telephone) call; (telephone) ring; shout; call; call loan (e.g. 30-day call); call money
(not) so much; (not) that much
body; group; party; company; troupe
oral; verbal; spoken; parol
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
to hang up; to end a telephone conversation
coming flying in (migratory birds, airborne sand, pollen, etc.); coming by airplane
anti-ship; anti-warship; anti-surface
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
to tease; to make fun of; to ridicule; to mock; to play with (e.g. a toy); to fiddle with
to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes
firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun; having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial
to blow up (i.e. wind); to blow upwards; to spout into the air
to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
pound (unit of weight); pound (currency); pound sterling; pond
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)