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being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

2

side job; sideline; subsidiary business

1

to set up shop; to open a store

1

personal opinion

1

festival merrymaking; revelry

2

rough (estimate, summary, etc.); broad; general; careless (e.g. work); sloppy; crude

2

summary; recapitulation; aggregation

1

hey; listen

2

therefore; for that reason; such being the case

1

buying and eating sweets (esp. of children); between-meal snacking

1

takoyaki; octopus dumplings

1

skewered beef

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yakisoba; fried noodles, usu. with vegetables and meat

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potato

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butter

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yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game

3

to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake

21

corn (Zea mays); maize

1

cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss

2

conquest; domination; supremacy; winning (a championship)

1

sauce-flavoured rice crackers

1

shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup); Italian ice; snow cone; sno-cone

2

to eat up; to consume (completely)

1

proficient; skilled; skillful; enjoying to the full; full satisfaction; being satiated (with)

6

aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

2

yukata; light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe

2

target practice; marksmanship; target shooting (e.g. at a fair)

1

crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling

1

(something) like that; that sort of; resembling; seemingly authentic; genuine-looking; realistic

1

fireworks

9

sense of the seasons; feeling of seasonality

1

this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent

8

mixer drink; starburst (firework)

1

with a bang

1

to be launched (e.g. rocket); to lift off; to be washed up (on the shore)

3

brocade; fine dress; fine clothes

1

par; equivalence; face value; parity

1

tail (of an animal); tail end; tip

2

ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

2

unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen

4

obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of a restaurant)

5

by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all

1

romanticist; romantic; dreamer

1

good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response

1

(growing) quickly (esp. children, plants); (developing) quickly; fast; rapidly

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old-mannish

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why

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the same age

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slang

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origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology

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