(formal) meeting with a view to marriage; interview with a prospective spouse
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
family restaurant (i.e. a restaurant with varied and inexpensive menu options); casual dining restaurant
tenugui; (hand) towel (usu. thin cotton cloth)
dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks; chopsticks (hand game)
veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced
to buy (stock, materials, etc.); to purchase; to lay in; to get; to obtain
having graduated from junior high school (as one's highest completed level of education); having completed no schooling beyond junior high school; middle school graduate
tide; current; tendency; trend
group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
this and that; various things
tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability
to walk about; to go out (here and there); to gad about
person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint
exposure to wind; severe criticism
malicious gossip; backbiting; speaking ill behind someone's back
zip; ping; zing; zoom; whoosh
I don't like it; it's troublesome; it's too much; it's awful
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
offering to a deity or someone's spirit; tribute to a person who is about to depart
number-withheld phone calls
to freeze (of one's body); to be frozen; to become numb (with cold); to be chilled
work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)
meal set before one; women's advances
leisurely, post-meal use of a toothpick
it is shameful to reject the advances of a woman; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; (lit.) not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame
sexual (i.e. relating to biological sex); sexual (relations, attraction, abuse, etc.)
(young) seductress; temptress; little devil; imp
spite; frustration; vexation
back off!; leave me alone!
selection; making a choice; sifting; decision to adopt or reject
reduction by half; halving
mental aspect; mental side
falling far short (of); being far behind; being far inferior (to); being no match (for)
dress; outfit; equipment; makeup; adornment; guise
change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
background (of a scene, picture, etc.); background (of an event, person, etc.); circumstances; background music; background (activity)
authority; power; influence; (an) authority (on); expert
honeytrap; honey trap; honeypot