Vocabulary

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for today; for the time being

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good-natured

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take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)

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mountain well

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to become insensitive; to become less perceptive; to lose one's touch; to get out of practice

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firefighter (Edo period)

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to make a splash; to evoke a response; to meet with a reaction

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being just before one is generous; punishing someone you love or value to uphold the rules; shedding tears while beheading Ma Su

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putting a deliberately bad interpretation (on a person's actions); petty-minded suspicion

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putting one's own beliefs on a pedestal; being narrow-minded

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my dear; my Buddha

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my dear; my Buddha

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to hide; to conceal oneself

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not without its worth; not to be undervalued; not altogether hopeless; nothing to sneeze at; pretty impressive

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relying on one's own resources; being entirely on one's own

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(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; eye to eye

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not having a single penny left; drained of every last cent

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highly unpredictable; touch and go

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to have a nosebleed; to bleed at the nose

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to duck one's head; to pull in one's head; to duck down; to shrug one's shoulders

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how others look at you; what others think about you

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everything one does; whatever one does

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not ... for nothing; not ... with nothing to show for it; worthwhile; no wonder ...

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disambiguation (of a Wikipedia page, etc.); ambiguity aversion

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may your soul rest in peace; I pray for your happiness in the afterlife

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gathering to remember a deceased person; memorial gathering

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in victory, remember your humility; in defeat, remember your fighting spirit

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to lose an argument despite being in the right; to have the right on one's side, yet succumb to another

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to lose an argument despite being in the right; to have the right on one's side, yet succumb to another

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to ultimately fail despite being in a favourable position; to fail at the last moment; to win the battle but lose the war; to have the upper hand in sumo (technique) but lose the match

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(a matter of) chance; fortune (of a given time); force of the times

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victory depends on the turn of fortune; winning and losing are both down to luck

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to be suspicious (of)

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everyone at once; everyone together

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together (of two people); both (of you, them, etc.)

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compared to the same month the previous year (e.g. in statistics, sales, electricity usage)

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treacherous; dangerous; untrustworthy; sneaky; cunning

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city that never sleeps

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is not; am not; are not

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treacherous; dangerous; untrustworthy; sneaky; cunning

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