dated; date; date of effect (e.g. a rule change); fixed; external
muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking
champion of justice; knight in shining armor; crime avenger; hero; super hero
licentious; profligate; dissipated; riotous; wild
preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding
friend and foe; enemies and allies; both sides
plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution
eight-tenths; ostracism; casting someone out; type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down; to reject; to eliminate; to refuse (e.g. a request); to deny; to flip
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; contraction; atrophy
other side; other party; other end (e.g. of phone connection); opposition
torrential rain; heavy rain; cloudburst; downpour
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place
complete devotion (to); total commitment (to); unvarying support (for); unwavering fixation (on); rigid preoccupation (with)
to diminish (dampen) the spirit
playful; mischievous; joker; prankster; scamp
hey; yo; hi; come on; hey
drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke; doing (something) suddenly and without warning; doing without prior notice
military sword; saber; sabre
wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder); slashing (someone) with a sword diagonally from the shoulder
to cut downward; to slash downward
red; vermilion; cinnabar; scarlet
prediction; prejudgment; presupposition; foregone conclusion
to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad side of a bargain; (lit.) to draw the joker (when playing Old Maid)
turmoil; chaos; confusion
Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
lottery; lot; raffle; draw
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
desperation; self-abandonment
vision (of the future); foresight; large display screen; imagination; insight; (sense of) sight
to recover; to rally; to improve; to carry in a different way; to change one's grip (on); to shift (a bag, etc.) from one hand to the other
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)