This “most suc­cinct word” is classed as one of the most dif­fi­cult to trans­late. It’s def­i­n­i­tion is beau­ti­ful and painful… I can’t count the time I’ve expe­ri­enced this.

A look shared by two peo­ple with each wish­ing that the other will ini­ti­ate some­thing that both desire but which nei­ther one wants to start. This could per­haps be trans­lated more suc­cinctly as “eye-contact imply­ing ‘after you…’”. A more lit­eral approx­i­ma­tion is “end­ing up mutu­ally at a loss as to what to do about each other”

via Kot­tke