(exp) to be worth reading
(exp) no hope of getting ahead
(exp,adj-i) lacking potential for advancement
no-hoper
(exp,v5r) to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly)
to imply something in a roundabout way
(adj-i) pushy
pushing
self-assertive
(adj-i) pushy
pushing
self-assertive
(exp) after school
(exp) to harbor ill feeling
(exp) to wait for a ripe moment
(exp) hard to please
difficult to get on the right side of
(n) self-righting doll
(exp) (uk) "It's not much, but..." (phrase often used when giving gifts)
(exp) (id) It is not everything to
(exp) to be related
(exp,adj-i) admitting no excuse
(exp,n) (1) something that goes without saying
something that needn't be said
(2) something that should rather be left unsaid
(exp) to stand high in one's superior's favor and trust
(exp,n) curtain pervious to light
curtain which passes light
(n) (comp) optical fall time
(n) (comp) optical rise time
(exp) to say the same thing over and over again
to talk until one is blue in the face
(exp) to have one's own field of work
(adj-i) too ashamed to meet
lit: to have no face to meet
(n) National Cancer Center
(exp) (id) This is the point we need to think about
(exp) no time like the present
lit: when you've just thought (to do something) is the auspicious day
(exp) (id) Make hay while the sun shines
(exp) one's fingers are caught in a door
(exp) to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears
(exp) to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears