sacrificial pawn; sacrificed piece; sacrifice
(a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
already; now; no longer; not any more
jacket; book jacket; dust cover; CD jacket; record jacket
mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly); gradual; bit by bit
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
comfort; consolation; diversion
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
remainder; remnant; not very; not much; too much; excessively
imagination; supposition; guess
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to complete decisively; to do to completion
remaining; left-over; excess
still; even now; to this day
just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone
stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
to push (something) against
no; that's wrong; it's not like that; isn't it?; wasn't it?
to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt
to play a trick on; to cheat; to deceive; to dupe
anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect
all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may
alert status; emergency alert
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares