a punitive expedition / a requisition
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Exact character matches appear first. Pinyin matches whole syllables in headword pronunciations. Common exact readings come before common compounds, followed by less frequent or restricted readings. Direct English meanings rank ahead of mentions in longer definitions.
Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.
(idiom) meticulous / very careful or attentive
heart attack / to have a heart attack
lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom) / fig. seething in anger / raise one's hackles
panic attack
May you have a prosperous New Year! (New Year's greeting)
to amass wealth while keeping a low profile (idiom)
to move and inspire
beanbag
to pass the time
to deprive / to withhold / to hold sth back (and prevent it being known)
wholesale price
wholesale business / bulk trade
with dishevelled hair (idiom) / with one's hair down
to send / to cable (a telegram)
lit. so loud that even the deaf can hear (idiom) / rousing even the apathetic
hair curler
curling iron
hair roller
to probe deeply and uncover minute details
hair extensions
to push-start (a car)
volatile memory
volatile oil (in general) / gasoline
to broadcast
lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom) / fig. innumerable (crimes)
press conference / news conference
spokesman
volatile
to break out (of disease etc) / to suddenly get rich (or prominent)
lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
(idiom) to express thoughts or feelings prompted by one's experience or observations
to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
(of a plot etc) to be exposed (idiom) / to come to light
hair dye / rinse / tint
diesel engine
nuclear power generation
nuclear power plant
crime scene
to get a hair transplant