(exp) one's resolution wavers
(adj-i) bloody
bloody stench
(exp) (id) Mrs Grundy
(v1) to be at a loss how to continue
to become disheartened
(v1) to be at a loss
to think and think but get nowhere
to fail to come up with a good idea
(v1) to think something over and over
to rack one's brains
to be at a loss
(exp) to pedal a bike
(exp) to be ready and waiting for
to be on the alert for
(exp) to be ready and waiting for
to be on the alert for
(n) missing a meal
(v1,vi) (1) to miss a meal
(2) to lose the means to make one's livelihood
(v5s,vt) to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.)
to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.)
to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
(exp) half due to luck
(exp) to spin cotton into yarn
(exp) to sew a fox's skin to the lion's
to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree
(adj-i) hectic
bewildering
bustling
dizzy
(v1) to fling off
to throw off
to throw to the winds
(exp) to take one's hat off
(exp,v5g) to unmask (someone's true nature)
(exp,v5g) to unmask (someone's true nature)
(v1,vi) (1) to miss a meal
(2) to lose the means to make one's livelihood
(exp,v5r) to slip through the dragnet
(v5u) (ktb:) to fall sound asleep
(exp) lost for words
not knowing what to say by way of excuse (refutation)
(adv,vs) very short and stout
small but quite wide around
(exp) having no outstanding characteristics (lit: height comparison among acorns)
to all seem about the same
bragging competition ("pissing contest") concerning matters of little importance
(exp) to gag someone
(exp) to swim with the current
(exp) to be stripped of all one has
(exp) little by little, slowly but surely
