important condition; basic premise; something that should be obvious to all; something that should not have to be argued; major premise (in a syllogism)
laughing while crying; smiling through one's tears; (alternately) laughing and crying; tears and laughter; joy and sorrow
one by one; thoroughly; exhaustively; with a fine-tooth comb
hereditary disposition; temperament; nature; (arch.) body build
thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time
control; check; restraint; inhibition
ash; embers; complete destruction
to come to (in the end); to end in; to attribute; to blame
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
responsibility; duty; obligation
to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite
influence (on someone); inspiration
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
relationship of mutual trust; fiduciary relation
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
with one's life (protect, etc.); at the cost of one's life
to perform the last rites over the deceased; to give someone their final notice (e.g. when firing them); to give someone the final word
reprimand; rebuke; reproach; scolding
all-out attack; general offensive
(for) the time being; (for) the present; immediate; present; (for) some time (after); checking account
traveling expenses; travelling expenses
Hotei; Budai; god of contentment, depicted as a pot-bellied monk who carries a large cloth bag on his back
whim; caprice; fancy; capricious; fickle; whimsical
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair); grip (e.g. of death)
to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)
nothing but; none other than
look!; there!; here!; that is
physical strength; muscle strength
musclehead; person obsessed with building muscle
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
reduction by half; halving
miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized
stocking up (in case of emergency); stockpile; reserves; storing; laying in (supplies)
passage; path; route; one's way
ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris