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rubbing cheeks together (as a display of affection); pressing cheeks together

2

one school; one sect; one denomination; one party; one faction; one group

2

fight fire with fire; set a thief to catch a thief; fight one evil with another

1

to take away; to carry away

1

harvest; crop; fruits (of one's labors); gain; catch (fishing); bag (hunting)

2

to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms

1

to coil around; to twine around; to cling (to); to follow around; to hang around

1

being beaten by one's opponent's persistence; being outlasted; running out of patience; giving in; succumbing (to)

1

washbasin; washstand

2

part of a building where water is circulated (kitchen, bathroom, etc.); wet area

1

to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something

1

raw materials; ingredients

1

mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray

2

predecessor; pioneer; ancestor

1

primness; putting on airs; clear soup; water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.)

1

task; (doing a) bit of work; difficult task; hard work

1

sense of relief; feeling of relief

1

to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate

5

undiluted solution (of)

2

sex slave; sex doll

1

antidote

8

first fly

1

careless person; scatterbrain; birdbrain; hasty person

1

to quieten down; to fall silent; to cease activities; to become inactive; to lie low

2

(cow's) milk

1

period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty

1

firearm; small arms

5

control; management; supervision

1

to violate the law; to have a brush with the law; to have a run-in with the law

1

to investigate; to examine

1

master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy

1

unless one ...; if one does not ...

1

heh-heh; hee-hee; ha ha; (arch.) female genitals; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) vulva

1

to smell; to sense

1

dim; dusky; gloomy

1

to become complicated; to become intricate; to become tangled

2

waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane

1

aesthetic sense; sense of beauty; eye for the beautiful

1

not serious; frivolous; insincere; unsteady

1

essence; quintessence; spirit; soul; heart; pith (and marrow)

2

foundation stone; cornerstone

1

strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa); 15,000 yen

2

to smell; to smell of; to have a smell

2

reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market); breaking new ground

1

handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission

3

opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable

1

zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

1

combined use; using together (with); using jointly; using at the same time

1

to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear

4

to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

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