to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)
don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me
nice-looking; seemingly fine; nice-sounding; polite-sounding; plausible (e.g. excuse); glib
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
unless one ...; if one does not ...
to make a fool of someone
in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu); being imperturbable; immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)
unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
harsh; severe (e.g. criticism, verbal attack); sweeping denunciation
quarrel; dispute; argument
to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
cruelty; hard-heartedness
being beaten by one's opponent's persistence; being outlasted; running out of patience; giving in; succumbing (to)
to be saved up (of money)
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
to get tired out; to be exhausted
upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
(only) one option; one possible choice
modern times; the modern age; this day and age
to be congenial; to agree with one; to be in one's nature
unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking
one by one; one each; one at a time
how could I (you, etc.) ...?; how dare you (they, etc.) ...; how can you have the nerve to ...?
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of
to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)