player (of a sport); athlete; team member
move with haste (when you have no doubts); strike while the iron is hot
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate
human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness
steering (a boat); helmsman; steersman; guidance; leadership; leader
makikomi (judo throw); vehicle accident involving a turn (e.g. when a car turns and hits a bicycle that was going straight); left-turn accident; right-turn accident
to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other
to discuss; to find fault with; to criticize; to criticise
copy; duplicate; facsimile; cc (on e-mails); carbon copy
as everyone knows; needless to say; obvious
(doing things at) one's own pace; (doing things) one's own way (esp. in an inconsiderate manner)
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
unladylike; unbecoming; immodest; unthinkable; impossible; ridiculous
utterly stark naked; wearing only one's birthday suit
poisonous air; poisonous gas; poisonous ingredient; poisonous nature; malice; spite
hearsay; hearing secondhand; hearing through the grapevine
once-in-a-lifetime encounter; uniquely precious experience; (lit.) one lifetime, one meeting
minimum; minuscule; local minimum
American; American-style (weak) drip coffee
major loss; crushing defeat; big discount
puppet; marionette; puppet (person, organization, government, etc.); figurehead; (arch.) prostitute
the misfortune of others tastes as sweet as honey
abuse; misuse; perversion
(the extent of) one's vocabulary
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
patronizing; expecting gratitude in return; acting like one is doing someone a favor; condescending
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
to push into; to stuff into; to be enthusiastic (about); to be crazy (about); to get excited; to be stirred up
attendance (at school); going to school
tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them