taking advantage of (an opportunity); jumping on the bandwagon; taking passage (in); getting a lift; getting a ride
making a killing; making easy money; robbery
return; comeback; reinstatement; carriage return; CR
recent state; present state; present condition; current status; current circumstances
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
planting; planting out; transplanting
to dry up completely; to become stale
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
unable to compete with; not able to make a dent in (e.g. a problem); not able to get a solid hit in (e.g. in a fight); hard to chew
to descend; to stoop; to degrade oneself; to be reduced to
Naraka; Hell; very bottom; the end; trap room (of a theatre); below-stage basement
Connelly; Connolly; Connoly; Conolly
(diving) fin; swim fin; flipper; fin (on a surfboard, aircraft, etc.)
instantly; immediately; equals; means; oneness (of two opposing things); inseparability
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do
irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)
(secret) date; clandestine meeting; assignation; tryst; rendezvous
anyway; either way; one way or the other; whichever; whatever
to soak into; to permeate; to penetrate
foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury
to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
trespassing; intrusion; to barge into; to burst into; to trespass
hokora; small wayside shrine
to pour drinks for each other; to drink together
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
in that way; like that; that way
beyond one's control; nothing one can do
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere
biography of a brave fighter; heroic saga; chivalric romance; tale of one's heroism; episode of bravery; acts of violence
wounded person; injured person
to crawl out of; to creep out of
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off