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walking on the good part of a street (to avoid puddles, etc.)

passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

picking up stitches (knitting)

Internet slang

image found on the Internet (as opposed to created by oneself)

foundling; rescued child

to get out of hand; to become uncontrollable; to boil over

picking up trash; litter picking; litter cleanup

out of hand; uncontrollable; out of control; messy

scavenging for food

to single out; to select

reading only the important parts; reading here and there; skimming through; browsing

reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

Idiomatic expression; Orig. from the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de La Fontaine

to take a risk for someone; to endanger oneself for someone; to gather chestnuts from the fire

to collect the ashes of the deceased

to look after someone's affairs after he dies

Proverb

when one door is shut, another is open; the world is as kind as it is cruel; there are gods that will abandon you and there are gods that will pick you up

retrieving balls (during a practice session; in tennis, baseball, etc.); acting as ball boy

ball boy; player (in a tennis club, etc.) assigned the role of ball boy

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

A Collection of Tales from Uji

gleaning (i.e. picking up crop left after harvesting)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Gleanings from Ancient Stories (Inbe no Hironari, 807 CE); historical record from the Inbe clan

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

(a) wander; amble

walking on the good part of a street (to avoid puddles, etc.)

ragpicker

to grow old

gathering cigarette butts; person gathering cigarette butts

Idiomatic expression

penny wise and pound foolish

to narrowly escape death; to have a narrow escape from death