toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
promise; agreement; arrangement; something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)
to have no way of knowing; to be completely ignorant of
dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky
three generations; third generation immigrant; sansei; the third (e.g. Henry III)
formidable person; shrewd person; certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone; (arch.) that sort of person; (arch.) that kind of person
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
winning over; placation; gentle persuasion
papa; dad; daddy; sugar daddy
mama; mamma; mom; female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)
to be dizzy; to be disoriented; to be dazzled; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
lighting up; illumination; floodlighting
impressiveness; impact; force; intensity; appeal; strength
order picking (taking goods from a warehouse to fulfil customer orders); lock picking; picking (a guitar, banjo, etc.)
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
reasonableness (esp. of children); obedience
novel; original; new; innovative
beautiful woman with cold, standoffish air
difference; disagreement; conflict; clash; discrepancy; inconsistency
aggressiveness; aggression
prevention of crime; security (device, camera, etc.)
(find) common (meeting) ground
difficult voyage; hard flight; rough going; rough passage; running into trouble
to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave
to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
(having) life-and-death power (over)
right (to do something); authority; power
seriously; no kidding; joking aside; in all seriousness
(doing nothing but) eating and sleeping; living idly