one grain; one drop; one bead
with a thud (of something heavy)
to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
to stick out one's tongue; to ridicule someone (behind their back); to laugh at someone
following (e.g. someone's opinion); being servile to; adherence; compliance; emulation; mimicking
security firm; security company
family structure; family composition; family makeup
Metropolitan Police Department (Tokyo)
pile; heap; counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.); layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat; combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours)
to want; to seek; to request
meeting place; rendezvous (point); roll-call (assembly) point; appointed (designated) place
to be in danger of; to be liable to; to be at risk of
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else
monster cat; cat with magical powers
wildness; wild nature; untamed nature; savage nature
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
unexplained fever in an infant (in the past believed to be related to intellectual development); teething fever; (lit.) wisdom fever; fever that comes from using one's head too much
eyesight; vision; visual acuity
aphrodisiac; love potion; philter
to cause offence (offense); to create hard feelings
drinking party; get-together (usu. involving alcoholic drinks)
overnight; since last night
omission; slip; error; definition (of photograph); sharpness; clarity (sound)
I don't give a damn; I wouldn't know; that's got nothing to do with me
thinking nothing of ...; undaunted by ...; in defiance of ...; in spite of ...; in the face of ...; ignoring ...
invalid; void; ineffective; unavailable
humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue; duty; formal greeting (between yakuza, street vendors, gamblers, etc.); (gang's) moral code
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
Pegasus (star); Pegasus (winged horse in Greek mythology)
hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous
a wise man keeps away from danger
to feel angry; to feel annoyed; to feel offended
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end
chafing; grinding (e.g. teeth); binding tightly; pulling tight (e.g. a bow); rotating quickly; hurting sharply
ordinary; nothing special; nothing to exclaim over
with a burble; hollow (sounding); holey; full of holes or dents; here and there; (sound of) walking slowly
liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
complementarity; complementation