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1 to scratch one's foot

2 (fig.) to be stingy

3 (slang) (of a celebrity) to twiddle one's thumbs (i.e. not release any new material etc)

1 lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition

2 task of Sisyphus

3 determination in the face of impossible odds

1 lit. to punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition

1 parliament

2 congress

3 legislative assembly

1 festive day

2 holiday

1 to prevent or treat a disease

1 Nassau, capital of The Bahamas (Tw)

1 adrenal glands

1 triangulation (surveying)

1 naughty

2 mischievous

3 unruly

1 (literary) former subordinate

1 quaver

2 eighth note

1 Huelva, Spain

1 the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible)

2 pitless (elevator)

1 some kind (of)

1 to investigate

2 to look into

1 (bird species of China) mountain scops owl (Otus spilocephalus)

1 man-eating (beast)

2 to eat people

3 fig. to oppress the people

1 foreign worker