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to just talk for the sake of talking
sake (Japanese rice wine)
to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom) / fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
in order to / because of / for the sake of
my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
chivalrous / helping the weak for the sake of justice
for the sake of / for the purpose of
to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
(in the expression 看在 + ... + 的份上) for the sake of ...; considering ...
to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
for the sake of / in order to
(idiom) to make concessions for the sake of future gains
Japanese rice wine / sake
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
(bird species of China) saker falcon (Falco cherrug)


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