sudden and unexpected; coming out of nowhere; out of the blue
disturbance; confusion; perturbation; commotion; turbulence
lifting a child high up in the air
riding (on horseback); mounting (a horse)
U-turn; returning home (after a vacation); moving back to one's (rural) hometown (after having lived in a big city)
moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that
to clench (one's teeth); to grit; to set; to clamp
to nail (to something); to nail down; to bang (e.g. one's head); to knock; to throw (at a wall, on the floor, etc.); to fling (at)
symptoms; condition (of a patient)
drunkenness; intoxication; motion sickness; travel sickness
enemy's strength; enemy's fighting power; enemy army; enemy forces
inevitable; inescapable; unavoidable
as you see; as you can see
hee hee hee; hi hi hi; chuckling; snickering
if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well
trivial; not amounting to much
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
external injury; external wound; (physical) trauma
unskilled; not very good at
resistance; opposition; obstruction; (electrical) insulating coating; insulating varnish
total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; total defeat; complete failure
party; gang; company; squad
main force; main strength; main effort; primary focus
main point; essential point; important thing; necessity; need; requirement
conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover
wounded person; injured person
to be busy; to be tied up doing something
whichever one chooses; either way
companions; friends; comrades; mates; partners
this is not the time (for that); that's out of the question right now
according to plan; as planned; on target
certificate; certified document; (the) thumbs up; seal of approval; paper with signature of the shogun or lord
to meet up (as arranged); to rendezvous; to get together; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
fortune in battle; luck in war; fate as a warrior
relation; connection; relevance
close call; narrow escape; hair's breadth; narrowly; just in time; by a hair's breadth
to be hot on a person's heels
rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily
fall; crash (of an aircraft)
small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt
change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
to the best of one's meager ability; the little help one can be; though my help might not be worth much