to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
common; ordinary; fair (e.g. fight); gracious; frank; open
close call; narrow escape; hair's breadth; narrowly; just in time; by a hair's breadth
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)
short temper; quick temper; hot temper; impatience; irritability
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
with a scraping sound; with a grating sound; with force; hard; forcibly (carry out); forcefully; hard (e.g. food)
hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky
unevenness; roughness; ruggedness; inequality; imbalance; unevenness
draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
hostility; antagonism; opposition
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
to be a good match (for); to stand a chance (against); to be able to compete (with); to hold one's own
skill; dexterity; master hand
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; clumsy
defeating in an instant; instant kill
course; route; course (of study); program; lane (in running, swimming, etc.); course (of action); policy
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
these guys; these fellows
to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below; to wedge; to play a wedge
to break; to break down; to be crazy; to be nuts; to be infatuated (with); to be crazy (about)
chink in the armor (armour)
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
riding ground; racecourse; racetrack
at once; immediately; instantly; in an instant; quickly; suddenly
guarding; guard; railway bridge (over a road); (railroad) overpass; flyover
if you think about it; come to think of it
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
pronoun; synonym; classic example; pattern
unique; matchless; unparalleled; unparallelled; never again
adds light emphasis or insistence to a statement; gives a statement a threatening or condescending tone
shithead; bastard; fucking; bloody; damned
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
pinch; tough spot; bind; clothespin; clothes peg
crossing; intersection; (genetic) crossing over
instruction (in martial arts, performance, etc.); teaching; coaching
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); because ...; for good reason; there is a (good) reason that ...