首

summit meeting; top-level conference

Idiomatic expression

still having a very small chance; still having a tiny shred of hope

to have one's neck wrung

deeply in love with; madly in love with; heads over heels in love with; to be crazy about

prime minister's official residence

Derogatory

to sit silently (and submissively) at a meeting

consistent; unchanging from beginning to end

Idiomatic expression

to torment by slow degrees; to torture slowly; to drag things out; to reproach in a roundabout way; to strangle with floss silk

Idiomatic expression

to look slightly doubtful; to look puzzled; to bend one's head slightly to one side

rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)

criminal's head on public display; displaying a beheaded head; beheaded head

making constant reference to

triumphant (over a mediocre achievement); boastful; as if one had grabbed a demon by the neck

suicide by hanging

the leading hitter

Derogatory

to sit silently (and submissively) at a meeting

United Arab Emirates; UAE

to be able to hold one's head up (of an infant)

summit meeting; meeting of leaders

Usu. figurative

to be hanged; to be struck dead; to eat one's hat

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets

Idiomatic expression

being over one's head (in debt, etc.); being up to one's neck (in debt)

being unable to turn one's head

Anatomy

inverted nipple; retracted nipple

being at one's wit's end; being (quite) at a loss (what to do)