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Estimate a purchase price Estimate the price of something one wishes to buy Reach an acceptable price In bargaining, reach a price suitable for buying or selling. take a share of someone’s winnings To receive and take a share of another person’s winnings. Cadge a share of winnings Obtain a share of gambling winnings by pestering and coercion Take an advance on farm labor Receive and use wages in advance for promised paddy work from transplanting through final weeding Set an estimated price Set an approximate market price or value for an object. 2 meanings Name a price or judge a level State a price when buying or selling goods Match the going price Set an object's price by looking at the prices of similar objects. 2 meanings check or offer a price To find out how much an item costs. 2 meanings Estimate a price or outcome Name an estimated price for goods Reach an acceptable price Of a price, reach a suitable point for buying and selling. Receive an official salary Become a government official and receive a stipend. By whatever means necessary By contriving some means, whatever it takes pocket a markup To appropriate an added price margin. Make a fortune Vulgarly, come to earn an enormous amount of money Suddenly become rich Suddenly earn a great deal of money and become wealthy. Become comfortably wealthy Acquire a very large sum of money and live comfortably Lend money for profit Increase profit by lending money here and there. Make money Earn money by doing something. take a bribe Colloquially, to accept a bribe. indicate the target coin In a coin-tossing game, to point with a finger at the coin to be struck among those thrown on the board. Slip someone a bribe Secretly give a bribe Strike coins in a game In the coin-striking game, hit a tossed coin with a designated striking piece Give a large secret bribe Secretly give someone a large bribe. slip someone a large bribe To secretly hand over a large bribe. Lose even one’s investment Suffer a loss instead of the profit one sought 2 meanings Expose one's true nature; exhaust one's capital Have one's usually hidden nature or character appear. run out of stories To run short of things to talk about. have prices linger at the bottom In securities trading, for fallen prices to hold at the same low level for a long time without falling further. be worse off for trying For the result of one’s work to be worse than doing nothing, rather than good. Lend money to several people Provide loans to several people. lend at interest To lend money on the understanding that interest will be paid. 2 meanings Pay for work; let out for rent Pay someone to do work. Match the going price For a price to match the current market price Give a bribe Vulgarly, give a bribe borrow at exorbitant seasonal interest To borrow money or grain at high seasonal interest and use it. 2 meanings Join a contribution or conversation Join others in contributing shares Take a gambling-house cut Organize a gambling game and take a portion from those who win money

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2 meanings Stride freely; swagger Walk with broad swings of one's arms and legs. Hedge one's bets Maintain and observe connections with both sides so that failure on either side does not disadvantage oneself. with dazzling speed or sharpness Swiftly or sharply enough to make fire flash from both eyes. Maintain ties with both sides Keep connections with both sides to benefit from each. Rest easy Relax because a worrying or demanding matter has ended be of two minds To hesitate between alternatives without a firm decision. Be inconsistent Be mutually contradictory and inconsistent 2 meanings give up completely or approve wholeheartedly An emphatic expression for giving up because something exceeds one’s ability. Sit doing nothing Remain still and do no work Leave with nothing Withdraw having lost everything one owned, with nothing remaining. 2 meanings Give up; welcome wholeheartedly Give up because something exceeds one's ability. 2 meanings look two moves ahead or gain twice In Korean chess or go, to foresee, when making one move, the position obtainable after two moves. Secretly siphon off money Secretly divert money meant for its original purpose to personal use and keep the two funds separately Swagger freely Act triumphantly and freely as one pleases. Be without equal Be the sole one, with no other Put something second Treat something as secondary or insignificant. even setting aside Even excluding something from the object or scope of consideration. In the remotest event An expression indicating extreme rarity split in half To split something into two halves. be too few even to count To be so excessively few that one cannot even count the quantity. Divine by falling nuts In a Cheonsin shamanic rite, put jujubes, pine nuts, or the like in a vessel, shake it, and divine from how many fall out. Extreme jealousy Vulgarly, very intense envy or jealousy Earn a living through manual labor Make a living through rough manual labor Be within the count Be within a particular sequence or range delay payment To put off settling wages or the like. Exercise good judgment Distinguish affairs or circumstances properly and deal with them with composure Calculate Calculate. Delay payment for a long time Leave wages or similar accounts unpaid for a long time. Calculate a number Calculate numbers 2 meanings work an abacus or calculate advantage To set out an abacus and calculate. Calculate one's interests Calculate gains and losses in a matter. 2 meanings Exceed an armful; be overwhelming Exceed the circumference one can embrace with both arms. be magnanimous To have great capacity to accept things generously. Be utterly out of the question An expression for saying something extremely unreasonable or absurd 2 meanings No matter how much; no matter what Even after every effort, enough to die and revive ten times. Put everything else aside Postpone or abandon all other affairs for one important task nine out of ten Almost all. all year round An emphatic expression for throughout the entire year. Wait in anguished longing Figuratively, wait with extreme anxiety and longing Attend roll call Attend roll call without missing it and go through the procedure. calculate the advantages To calculate the gains and losses involved in a matter. Calculate gains and losses Calculate the benefits and costs of an affair Be in agreement Share the same intentions. Countless strands An extremely large number of different strands 2 meanings Not at all; absolutely not In modestly declining praise or thanks, express that it is undeserved. One in a thousand Express great rarity. Set dimensions Determine an object's dimensions, such as length. take measurements To measure and determine dimensions. Filled to the brim With the amount or number filling a fixed limit. be inseparably connected To be connected so that one cannot be separated from the other. Every single thing Everything whatsoever Pull off an achievement Produce a result after doing something score a success To produce a result after doing something. Let words go in one ear and out Ignore something after hearing it without taking it to heart. 2 meanings have a stake or connection To take responsibility for a share of a task. 2 meanings Take a part Undertake a share of an affair The entire month The whole month. reconnect a broken ore vein To dig into a broken ore vein and find its continuation again. Unite as one Unite organizationally or ideologically so as to act like one body Treat all alike Treat things together without distinction because they are all the same. 2 meanings Land a blow or verbal hit Vulgarly, hit hard once 2 meanings take a hit Colloquially, to be struck hard once. 2 meanings Ease up or underestimate Gain breathing room after passing a difficult stage of work Give oneself a handicap Of the stronger party, voluntarily lower one's own capability. Step back from work Withdraw somewhat from one's work or neglect it. yield a notch To lower oneself by one level. dig one well To devote oneself to one thing and pursue it to the end. Be less than a handful Be so little as not even to fill a handful. be only a handful To be small in quantity. Become a handful of ashes or earth A figurative expression for “to die” 2 meanings Fail to see even a little ahead Have eyesight so poor that one cannot see even nearby things Lose one's key helper Lose the most important person who helps one. take one’s rightful part To participate together with the appropriate qualification. Take a share in an undertaking Take on a share of a particular undertaking Make a substantial profit Make a solid gain. make a substantial profit To secure a substantial gain. Scrimp over the smallest amount Conserve and begrudge even an extremely small quantity settle the accounts accurately To account accurately. Include in one’s calculations Include something among the considerations when devising or planning

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Have extensive education Have studied much and attained a high educational level. have little formal education To have low educational attainment from not having had much schooling. 2 meanings Brush someone off; act carelessly Describes coldly keeping someone from even approaching, let alone granting their request. Acquire a negative label Have a negative judgment or reputation attached to someone Acquire a negative label Of a person, receive a negative evaluation or reputation. empty someone’s purse To make someone spend all their money or take it all away. Be soaked through Figuratively, have one's clothes drenched in water or sweat. Quit entirely Completely quit a job or matter one was involved in. 2 meanings unpack one’s secrets or plans To expose hidden facts. Go to any lengths to dissuade Deliberately travel even a long distance to stop someone doing something Pack up to leave Pack to move away from where one lives or works. pack up and leave To pack needed belongings or household goods and move or set off on a journey. Settle down Begin residing and living somewhere dress up something worthless To make only the exterior look beautiful when the inside is worthless. be cuckolded For one’s wife to commit adultery with another man. 2 meanings Load atop a pack; add extra Put an upper load on a horse or ox. tighten one’s purse strings To save money extremely frugally. Be short of funds Have insufficient spending funds or money. have ample funds To have plenty of funds or money available to spend. be short of money To have little money. Have plenty of money Have enough money in one’s possession Have no money Have no money. 2 meanings Empty one's pockets; rob Offer all the money one has. Be robbed Suffer robbery lay down one’s burden To escape pain, sorrow, worry, responsibility, or the like. 2 meanings Pack up and leave Completely quit an affair one has been involved in Settle somewhere Choose a residence somewhere and begin living there. 2 meanings Be inferior; take a bad turn Have unequal level or degree, with one side inferior. Be short of money Have poor funds or money available to spend. have ample spending money To have plenty of funds or money available to spend. Be short of money Have little money in one’s possession Have plenty of money Have sufficient money. 2 meanings empty one’s pockets or rob someone To give up all the money one has. Be robbed Suffer robbery

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settle on a course To put an atmosphere, situation, thought, or the like in order according to reason or logic. Take a coherent direction For an atmosphere, situation, thought, or the like to become ordered according to reason or logic 2 meanings interfere or sow discord To interfere with or interrupt someone else’s conversation. Operate a mechanism Turn a device that makes a machine work. Bow low in the courtyard Make a bow below the courtyard platform give in To submit. Bow in submission Bow one's head as the weaker party. 2 meanings Confine or put in a shaping form Prevent someone from leaving a limited area Shape on a last Use a last to correct an object's shape. 2 meanings fire blanks or issue threats To fire blank ammunition. Lay a trap Use methods to entice or harm others. remove fish from a net To detach fish caught in the meshes of a net. release the bowstring To release a taut bowstring with the thumb wearing an archery ring. provide a livelihood To provide someone with a way to make a living. Lose one’s means of support Have the means one depended on for a living cut off Find a means to get by Find a means to cling to and live on. Stand rooted to the spot Figuratively, the appearance of standing upright without moving at all Have a screw loose Be absent-minded or mentally unsettled Become mentally lax Be slack in one's mental state. become mentally slack For one’s mental state to become lax. tighten up one’s discipline To compose a lax mind and pull oneself together. cast bait To use a means of enticing someone. 2 meanings Sharpen an edge; focus one's mind Sharpen the cutting edge of a tool. 3 meanings be sharp For a tool’s edge to become sharp. Pour down in sheets Figuratively, describe rain streaming down in long lines. loosen supervision To relax strict supervision and allow a little freedom. let out a piercing cry To let out an exceptionally shrill sound. Drive something home deeply An emphatic expression for causing deep, lasting resentment in another's heart, or stating a fact precisely and clearly. Be trapped with no escape Figuratively, a position from which one cannot escape a predicament. Hold the real authority Have actual authority over an undertaking Squirm restlessly Be unable to sit quietly, twisting and moving one’s body about Threaten severely Threaten extremely harshly. 2 meanings Stay entrenched or become a career soldier Remain in a position for a long time Use corporal punishment Strike with a switch, club, or the like. 2 meanings Operate or tackle a deep problem Perform surgery 2 meanings Wound deeply or make definite Plant a deeply bitter grievance in another person’s heart 3 meanings Be deeply wounded; stand frozen; stare fixedly Have bitter feelings deeply lodged in one's heart. Interfere obstructively Intrude into another’s affair and obstruct it attach a kite’s bridle To attach bridle strings to a kite. 2 meanings Snatch a kite; intercept property Throw a weighted line to catch another person's kite. Nock and draw an arrow Place an arrow against the bowstring and draw the bow Have formidable power Have very great authority or momentum. Wield formidable power Have exceedingly strong power or force 2 meanings Interfere ineffectually Interfere clumsily or ineffectually Deliver an ineffectual blow Deliver an insufficiently decisive blow. receive an ineffectual blow To receive an inadequate or ineffectual blow. Land an ineffectual blow Deliver an inadequate blow Intervene forcefully Actively come forward to oppose or interfere in a matter 4 meanings drive home a point or drive a wedge To secure a firm assurance in advance to prevent later trouble. Set a fish weir Set a fish weir in the water. Fall into a snare Be caught in another person’s scheme Entrap someone Use a scheme to trap another person. 4 meanings worry, speak obliquely, or scheme To agonize over not knowing how a tangled affair will turn out. Boast that one can do it Assert boastfully that one can accomplish something. learn a harsh lesson To be severely chastised. walk a tightrope For an acrobat to walk along a rope in tightrope performance. 2 meanings Straight or unmistakably clear With a straight, orderly appearance Pull strings Control people from behind the scenes without coming forward. 2 meanings line up or cultivate useful connections To connect continuously without interruption. Stretch out an arm to offer Figuratively, the manner of stretching an arm fully out to offer something for another to take Punish severely Punish severely or deal a heavy blow. Be severely punished Receive severe punishment take responsibility for the group Colloquially, to undertake on behalf of the group a shared task no one wants to assume. Take up arms Go into battle bearing weapons 2 meanings Shoot; take up arms Hold and fire a gun. 2 meanings Inflict harsh punishment or harm Give severe punishment. 2 meanings sharpen one’s sword To prepare for fighting, aggression, or the like. Be struck by a blade Be attacked with a blade Riffle-shuffle hwatu cards Divide a hwatu deck roughly in half and mix it evenly so cards from both halves interleave. Take decisive corrective action Try to resolve defects, problems, or the like harbor murderous intent To harbor an intention to kill. Hold the power Have actual authority over an undertaking Wield authority Use power. Tighten a binding Make a tied object taut with a twisting rope-tightener Tighten with a twisting toggle Twist the tension cord to tighten the bound object. waste one’s efforts To labor in vain without achieving results or an effect. redirect criticism To direct blame, attacks, or the like elsewhere. Make a new bow Make a bow anew

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Flatter someone into overlooking things Praise someone plausibly to gloss over or deceive them Lead someone’s horse Hold the reins and lead a horse ridden by another person Lead someone's horse Hold and lead the reins of a horse someone else is riding. have one’s horse led To have someone else hold the reins and lead one’s horse. 2 meanings be wild or unrestrained An expression for a person who behaves wildly. Be free of restraint Be unbound or uncontrolled. Ease up Relax one’s vigilance or tension Increase the pressure Keep a situation tense without relaxing it at all. tighten the reins To press hard so as to maintain tension in a situation. Take firm control Take control of a task and pursue it actively and vigorously 2 meanings be wild or unrestrained An expression for a person who behaves wildly. A person bound by constraints Figuratively, someone bound by work or constraints and unable to escape break free of restraints To become free by escaping restraints or control. Be bound by constraints Become bound by work or constraints and unable to escape Restrict someone's freedom Constrain someone so they cannot act freely. Mark text as correct When checking a text against another, mark its beginning with “△” to show it is correct. bear a yoke To be bound so that one cannot act freely. Supervise workers Lead several people and direct their work Hold one’s own horse’s reins Ride a horse while holding the reins oneself 2 meanings Put in a bit or gag Put a bit in a horse’s mouth Take control Play the leading role, or seize the initiative and direct matters spur someone on To give advice, encouragement, or the like.

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walk a thorny path To live a difficult, harsh life. Stand at a crossroads Be in a position requiring a choice Walk in a zigzag Walk unsteadily this way and that rather than straight. end up homeless To have nowhere to go because the family has been ruined and its home has become someone else’s property. Take the first steps Begin a task or business for the first time. 2 meanings take one’s first steps For a young child to begin learning to walk. 2 meanings Learn to walk Of a young child, learn walking for the first time. run for one’s life An expression for fleeing urgently with all one’s strength. 2 meanings Take the first steps Begin walking 2 meanings Hurry one's steps; urge someone onward Hurry along while traveling. honor someone with a visit An honorific expression for an elder or person of high standing making a visit. 2 meanings Sidestep or make little progress Walk sideways find a way To find a means. Clear a path Clear things off a road or make them move aside Open a way Find or provide a means. 2 meanings hurry on To hurry while traveling. Hurry along Walk quickly to reach one's destination sooner. Be delayed on one’s journey Leave on a journey and arrive at the destination later than expected establish a connection To form a relationship that enables one to do something. Take longer to arrive Have the time from departure to arrival be delayed. Need to hurry onward Be in circumstances requiring quick travel to one’s destination cover ground rapidly For one’s pace to quicken so that the distance covered increases rapidly. A way opens up Become able to do something, or see a prospect ahead get under way To enter the course of progress of some undertaking. Pass through intermediaries For words, objects, or the like to pass from one person to another through an intermediary Act as a go-between Connect two or more parties to help a matter go well. restore a connection To reestablish a broken relationship so that communication resumes. 2 meanings Do a great deal of walking; walk for pay Walk a great deal. Give up an undertaking Abandon and give up the work one was doing Start an enterprise Start or prepare to start something. 2 meanings drop anchor or settle To let out the anchor rope and put the anchor into the water. Charter a boat exclusively Rent a boat by oneself for payment, or take exclusive possession of it. Leave oneself a way out Leave room to escape get in at the last moment To join belatedly as something is nearing its end. Stop visiting entirely Never come or go at all. quicken one’s pace To hurry while traveling. Be unable to bring oneself to depart Be unable to leave readily because attachment, regret, concern, or worry keeps one uneasy be unfamiliar with a route To be unfamiliar with a path because one seldom travels it. Know a route well Be familiar with a route from traveling it repeatedly Leave no trace Figuratively, a state in which no trace remains Stagger along Walk with a pronounced stagger. Go off on a tangent Go somewhere irrelevant or act outside the proper course Go off track Go somewhere unexpected or act outside the proper course. 2 meanings have a long way ahead To have many tasks still remaining. Wind something up deftly Figuratively, describe skillfully winding something into coils and binding it. Follow tracks Pursue by following footprints left by a person or animal. Track an animal Follow an animal's footprints to catch it. Scurry along Move hurriedly with frequent, closely spaced steps Stop for lunch or rest Eat lunch or rest midway through a journey Take one's first steps Begin a task or business for the first time. 2 meanings take one’s first steps For a young child to begin learning to walk. take the helm To set the direction of an undertaking or destination. Share a fate Share one's destiny.

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be beaten mercilessly A figurative expression for being severely beaten, likening it to a Qing envoy’s servant being beaten for unruly behavior. Act as a broker Serve as a broker and arrange a bargain. A jumble of odds and ends A collection of shabby things thrown together indiscriminately. paltry food An expression for insignificant, worthless food. Detain potential witnesses Take away a murderer’s neighbors or passersby near the crime scene as witnesses Be summoned as a witness Of a murderer's neighbor or a person passing near a crime scene, be summoned as a witness. Butt into someone else's business Of someone not directly involved, interfere and speak from the sidelines. butt into a conversation For someone who is not a party to the matter to interfere by speaking. Leave someone unattended Leave someone without a protector or watcher be left without a caregiver To have no one nearby to protect or watch over one. Have relations with a woman Date a woman and have intimate relations with her serve as a horse-leading attendant To act as an attendant and hold the horse’s reins. Serve as a horse attendant Become a horse attendant and hold the reins Direct a shamanic ritual Oversee the progress of a shamanic ritual Provide famine relief For the state or an individual to distribute grain to people starving in a famine live as a wanderer An expression for living as a wanderer, relying on others here and there. A transient world An expression for the fleeting world do work that benefits only others For the result of one’s work to benefit others alone, bringing oneself no gain. exceptional Exceptionally special or extreme, unlike others. Exploit and rob others Take others’ property through vicious, cunning deeds Gossip about others Gossip or criticize others behind their backs. fall behind others To lag behind others. Work under someone Work while subject to another person’s orders Work as a live-in servant Work for another household while eating and sleeping there. a shameless woman A figurative expression for a shameless woman. A miserly, spiteful disposition Figuratively, a stingy and spiteful nature Be deeply wrinkled For an object to be all wrinkled Serve as a ceremonial attendant Perform the role of attending beside the bride, groom, or accompanying guests at a traditional wedding Beat savagely Figuratively, describe striking wildly. have enormous feet For feet to be very large. employ a private tutor To keep a private tutor at home. run into a very difficult situation To encounter a very difficult and demanding situation. Face a very trying situation Encounter something extremely difficult and troublesome. Select one's staff Of a commander, choose the staff they will lead. work as a hired farmhand To serve as a hired farmhand. Work as a hired laborer Work as a hired laborer Talk one’s way around circumstances Figuratively, the manner of deftly changing one’s story to suit circumstances, as a boatman easily turns the bow in any direction Have powerful backing Have many people providing backing A fool acting absurdly For a worthless person to behave absurdly An extremely distant relative A distant relative scarcely different from a stranger. lack basic human decency To lack the conduct or virtues a person ought to have. Help! A cry uttered in a situation so urgent that one feels one’s life is endangered 3 meanings Be exhausting; be absurd; be delightful Be greatly strained and weary by an excessively demanding situation. ruin a person To turn someone into a bad person or make them useless. 3 meanings Kill, torment, or captivate someone Kill a person Become a decent person Become a human being possessing moral and personal qualities worthy of a person. all government officials An expression for all government officials, referring collectively to the three chief state councillors and ministers of the six ministries. accuse an innocent person To disparage or criminalize someone who has done nothing wrong or has no connection to the matter. find someone a husband To cause someone to obtain a husband. Establish connections Form a relationship with a person or group Entertain guests Serve many guests for an important occasion haze a successful examination candidate An expression for the old custom of seniors celebrating someone’s success in the state examination by drawing on their face with ink and tormenting them with orders to move forward and backward. An ill-bred fatherless bastard An insult meaning someone who grew up without a father, unchecked and ill-mannered. Waste away after a sibling's birth Of a child, grow thin after a younger sibling is born. Pester like a child Figuratively, the manner of pleading persistently Be exceptionally beautiful For a woman’s appearance to be extremely beautiful Go to an adoptive family Be designated an adopted son and go to the adoptive family. be adopted as a son To become the adopted son of another family. Adopt a son Choose and take in an adopted son Adopt a son Choose and bring in an adopted son. Outdo grown-ups in shrewdness Of a child, be so shrewd that even adults cannot match them. Be ludicrously childish Be laughable like children’s mischief As one pleases Figuratively, arbitrarily change a matter as one likes, just as a candy seller stretches candy freely. 2 meanings Lead or dominate Become the leader or an officer of a group or alliance Have a large family network Have many family members or relatives Be devoid of human decency Lack the conduct or virtue a person should possess win favor To gain favorable opinions from others. Be overly generous Treat others more generously than necessary Win goodwill Receive favorable regard from others. lose goodwill To fail to gain favorable opinions from others. Be overwhelmed by a crowd Be mentally overwhelmed and confused by the collective energy of many people. Charge a tax to relatives Make relatives pay the military-cloth tax on another's behalf. Find the right match Have an object or person meet the right counterpart, enabling proper display of ability or function. Accomplish with little effort Figuratively, accomplish something easily without much effort Cherish profoundly Value an object with extreme care 3 meanings find lodging or an employer’s household To choose a house in which one can stay and sleep temporarily. Use a connection Establish a connection with another person to investigate or find something. 2 meanings line up or cultivate useful connections To connect continuously without interruption. find a connecting channel To find a route for establishing connections. Wait one’s turn Wait for a turn, opportunity, or the like Use someone’s influence Form a relationship with an influential person and use that person’s power take command To become the leader of a group or organization. be saddled with someone else’s costs To find oneself absurdly made to bear someone else’s expense or effort through their circumstances or maneuvering. chatter and fuss frivolously To act and chatter extremely frivolously. 2 meanings Lose virginity or marry For a bachelor to lose his virginity for the first time royal treatment An expression for extremely attentive, generous treatment. make market-moving transactions To carry out transactions on such a large scale that they influence prices in markets such as stocks or real estate. Act slyly Deliberately act deviously with sinister intentions.

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