hand motion indicating gratitude
prize beyond one's reach; unattainable object; woman who is out of one's league; (lit.) flower on a high peak
to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
expulsion; excommunication
to lie; to cheat; to pretend; to trick; to deceive
incompletion; incomplete; unfinished
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
matter; thing; affair; circumstance
open seam; seam that has come apart; tear
gushing forth; bursting out; (lit.) like breaking a dam
to have an eye on; to zero in on
to tighten; to press hard
to squeeze out; to wring out
coalition; alliance; union; standing side-by-side
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
not only ... (but also); not just; as well as
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
absolutely essential; indispensable; vital; critical
step-up; advance; progress; increase
one's own property; possessions
unhurriedly; leisurely; slowly; relaxedly; taking one's time
other people's affairs; somebody else's problem
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
singularity; singular point
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of
whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper
big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with
not knowing what's what; being unable to make heads or tails
simmer; bubble out; flow out
to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil
to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop