jpdb beta

eve (esp. Christmas Eve); the night before

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small salary; meagre salary; low pay

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cake shop; pastry shop

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stupid face; foolish look on one's face

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to waste time

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redundancy; superfluity; useless addition

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curtain call

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boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless

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to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset

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convenience store lunch box

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nature; disposition

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notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal

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unfashionable; uncouth; unrefined; unpolished; unsophisticated

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restricted; confined; unfree

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(it is such) a thing

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splash; spray; chance blow; by-blow; getting dragged into (a quarrel, etc.)

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scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer

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(preliminary) skirmish; prelude; preliminary encounter; warm-up match (e.g. before a final)

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each house; every house; many houses

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to cut one's way through the waves

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aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing

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operator; worker; maker

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decoration; arrangement

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Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir

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coupon (ticket)

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