scooping loaches; catching loach in a net; loach-catching dance
festival merrymaking; revelry
time; hour; season; suitable time; opportunity; chance
energy; vigour; vigor; liveliness; spirit; life
war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces
cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)
coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
to move; to shift; to inspire; to rouse; to change; to alter; to operate
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
seeing (someone) off; send-off; deferment; postponement; letting a pitch go by; wait-and-see attitude
busyness; a lot of things to do; frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses
naming; nominating; designating; calling on; asking for; requesting
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond
to sell; to betray; to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.); to make (oneself) known; to establish (a reputation) for oneself; to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.)
white makeup powder; (face) powder
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for
flour; meal; powder; heroin
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
year-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)
relaxation; recreation; recess
to assign; to allot; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate; to assess
considerably; fairly; quite; rather; pretty
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
world; society; people; the public
twelfth month (esp. of the lunar calendar); December
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse; litter
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
repair; mending; fixing; servicing
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
to gaze (at); to stare intently (at); to look fixedly (at); to fascinate; to enchant; to possess
crack; fissure; rift (in a relationship); split; crack
danger; peril; hazard; risk
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
to be torn off; to come off
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; yoisho! (word shouted by the spectators during a yokozuna's ritual stomps); yoisho (filler word in folk music, etc.); flattery; buttering up (someone)
emergency measure; emergency procedures; first-aid treatment; stop-gap treatment; temporary repairs