to tread on thin ice; to walk on thin ice; to take a grave risk; to be in a precarious situation
to become scared; to have an attack of nerves; to have a yellow streak; to chicken out; to run out of courage
to thrust down; to push off
to be astonished to hear; to be incredulous about; to express disbelief; who do you think you're kidding by saying (that); what a laugh!
a little less than; a little under; weakness; the weak; -lower (seismic intensity)
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
soft and lacking firmness; weak; weak-willed; spineless; weak (market); bearish
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
tug of war; forward puller (of a rickshaw)
gift; premium; prize (lottery drawing, pachinko, etc.); party favor (favour)
to fly; to race away; to vanish; to disappear; to rush over; to hurry over
snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons
minimum; minuscule; local minimum
well done!; good job!; good work!; you did it!; bravo!
to look down (on); to condescend (to)
discrepancy; discord; disagreement; mismatch; dissonance
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
to lose sight of; to miss
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind
postponement; deferment; adjournment
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
to find out; to discover; to locate
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
order of chivalry; chivalric order
unique flavor (flavour); (degree of) flavouring; distinctive quality; special charm
to invade; to raid; to infringe; to encroach; to harm; to afflict
to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse; litter
to get rid of; to erase; to dispel; to eradicate; to wipe away
to be gouged; to be hollowed; to become hollow