jpdb beta

main force; brute force; strong-arm

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one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; one's time (to act); one's chance

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incomplete combustion; imperfect combustion; being off one's game; not doing one's best; being unable to use all of one's strength

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generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward)

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mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

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old people; grandparents

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mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend); position or division in a company to which an old and ineffective person is transferred; women's college

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claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

2

opposite side; opposition

3

to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path

4

to cut off the retreat

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attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment

2

to kill (with a weapon); to slay; to defeat (an opponent); to beat

2

to gain time; to play for time; to buy time

1

(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

1

magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly

3

mademoiselle

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tyranny; atrocity

1

punishment; judgement; judgment; decapitation

1

fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit

1

path of retreat

1

clever

1

at once; immediately; right away; directly (face, lead to, etc.); automatically (mean, result in, etc.)

1

unnecessary; not needed; not necessary

2

fleeing; escape

1

to expel (from the body); to let off (a fart); to utter (a lie, nonsense, etc.); to say; to do

1

hypothesis; supposition; assumption; expectation; anticipation

1

once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning

2

arrow; wedge; chock

2

puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout; bursting; overflowing; being jammed (e.g. phone lines)

1

to shoot through (a wall, the heart, etc.); to go through; to pierce; to hit (e.g. the bull's-eye)

1

execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; (putting into) practice; execution (of a program); run

1

to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love

1

short spring night

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runaway; fugitive

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meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous

1

pocket

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knife

4

to knock down; to knock off

1

to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)

4

Jesus (Christ)

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to twist; to screw; to wrench; to sprain

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to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)

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enemy general

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eyebrow

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to shave

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Everyone is safe (all right)

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and they all lived happily ever after; having a happy ending; ending without incident

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weak; frail; fragile

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to run past; to run by; to go too far ahead

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