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standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

1

bell; bel (unit); B

5

innocent; cherubic; childlike

1

at the window; by the window; next to the window

1

vulgar; indecent; crude; jumbled (of a place); disorderly; chaotic

1

violence; mayhem

1

snack; light meal; snack bar (usu. an establishment that serves alcohol); snack food (esp. potato chips, popcorn, etc.); munchie

1

to entice; to tempt; to invite someone to join in

1

(member of the) yakuza; gangster; hoodlum; racketeer; useless; worthless

1

to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight

1

office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman

1

this sort of; this type of

1

squalid; messy

1

business district; shopping district; bustling street; shopping centre; shopping center; downtown

2

concealment; hiding; ambush; incubation; latency; dormancy

1

quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality

1

extreme; extremity

1

and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

1

to whirl; to eddy; to swirl; to whirl around (of feelings, thoughts, etc.); to swirl around; to surge

2

request

1

in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case

1

convenient

1

while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily

1

thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting

1

light; bright; bright (colour); cheerful; bright; bright (future, prospects, etc.); rosy

1

timetable; schedule

4

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

2

messy; confused; chaotic; in a nagging manner; (complaining) about various things

1

railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

28

maze; labyrinth; inner ear

1

route (bus, train, air, etc.); line; line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course

1

plural; multiple; plural (number)

1

driving into

1

limit; bounds

1

Shinjuku Station

4

best in the world

1

pulpy; soppy; sloppy; untidy; in a disarray

1

paper

1

small; fine; detailed; stingy

3

character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

1

and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

2

decipherment; interpretation; making out; identification

2

to make do errands; to set to scutwork

1

to copy; to duplicate; to describe; to depict; to imitate; to model after

2

et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth

1

slowly but steadily

1

to begin to catch (attention, etc.); to begin to collect

1

falling lightly (e.g. snow, petals, confetti); fluttering; flickering; twinkling; appearing and disappearing; catching glimpses

1

skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough

1

memo pad

3