confections; sweets; candy; cake
influencing (a person) for good
when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched
what's the matter?; what's wrong?
to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange; to tie; to bind; to fasten
sanity; consciousness; soberness
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
pink; erotic (usually used in relation to the sex industry); blue; pornographic
to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show
calmly; quietly; gently; be quiet!
telecommunications; correspondence
absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity (philosophy)
playful; mischievous; joker; prankster; scamp
sticky; thick (e.g. thickly plastered); ikky; to stick closely
omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
this is not the time (for that); that's out of the question right now
public (facilities, service, etc.); communal
chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken; chicken meat
mix; mixed-race person; multiracial person
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
one's habitual behaviour (behavior)
boasting; big talk; bombast; Australian English
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
to happen to have on hand or in stock
shumai; shaomai; steamed meat dumpling (Chinese-style)
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
it's no big deal; it's no problem; it's nothing to worry about; safe (and sound); all right
only; prostitute attached to a single member of the postwar Occupation Forces