thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
claim (for compensation); customer complaint seeking compensation; (general) complaint; objection
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
to have a smattering knowledge of
to connect; to join; to join or tie or knot together
gentle; peaceable; amicable; without fuss; simply
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
person concerned; interested party; related party
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside; to set aside; to keep apart; to remove (someone) from the group; to shun
to hinder; to obstruct; to disrupt; to interfere with; to cause a delay
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
groundwork; foundation; inclination; aptitude; undercoat; first coat
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
cabinet reshuffle; cabinet shake-up
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property
appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation
mass communication; mass media
good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
outbreak (e.g. of war); outburst; sudden occurrence
to flap strongly; to stir up fiercely
as (for); for; in the capacity of
strategic arrangement of go stones; opening moves; preparation; preparatory steps; groundwork
influence; clout; leverage
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
in comparison to; rather than
to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
getting deeply involved; going deeply into; going too far (into something)
to play with fire; to do something very dangerous; to take a great risk; (lit.) to step on a tiger's tail
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)