special sale; bargain sale
to profit; to benefit (from); to benefit (someone or something); to be beneficial to; to make good use of; to take advantage of
greeting the New Year (on New Year's Eve); welcoming the New Year
food expenses; money for food; charge for board
Japanese food; Japanese dish; Japanese cuisine
slanted eyes; upturned eyes; eyes that are turned up at the outer corners
to be disheartened; to be dejected; to be discouraged; suddenly (losing a lot of weight); looking emaciated; becoming very thin
hit-and-run (causing personal injury)
paranoid; obsessive; fixated; monomaniacal
bold; daring; dauntless; intrepid; stout-hearted
rough (estimate, summary, etc.); broad; general; careless (e.g. work); sloppy; crude
eating until one is full; eating one's fill; gorging (on); having adequate food; having all one needs (for daily living); plenty
high-rise (building); multistory; multistoried; high (altitude); upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)
worn-out; run-down; beat-up; shabby; dilapidated
(something) like that; that sort of; resembling; seemingly authentic; genuine-looking; realistic
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
popular; folksy; plebeian; ordinary; unpretentious
to be (deeply) moving; to pack an (emotional) punch; to be emotionally touching; to strike home; to strike a chord
rather than; more ... than ...
degeneration; retrogression; atrophy; regression (e.g. of society); deterioration; degeneration
to collapse on the street (from illness, hunger, exhaustion, etc.); to fall down dead on the road
to have an uneasy conscience
to feel hungry; to get hungry
personal identification number; PIN; password number
screaming (vocal technique); shouting
prevailing view; common opinion; general consideration
man's man; man aggressively pursuing sex and riches; (lit.) carnivore
administrator; janitor; manager; custodian; executor
insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
harmonious; peaceful; congenial; luxuriant (vegetation)
to make oneself pleasant to everybody; to smile at everybody; to try to please everybody; to make things pleasant
interior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); enclosed corridor
I thought so; I suspected as much; just as I thought; now you're talking; that's the spirit
throughout; all through; right through
common saying; everyday talk; common parlance; vulgar; lowbrow; indecent
while alive; during one's lifetime
the deceased; the departed; old friend; longtime acquaintance