easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk
high-spec; highly competitive (on the dating scene, e.g. by having a high income, being good-looking); ticking all the boxes
great vigor; tremendous energy; (lit.) forceful enough to knock down birds in flight
dwindling; declining; diminishing; tapering (to a point)
expectation; anticipation; forecast
entering (the marketplace); introducing (something) to the market; access; visiting a high-class or noble individual
steady; sound; solid; reliable; trustworthy
expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC
notable; important; chief; valuable; conspicuous; outstanding
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
know-how; expertise; the ropes; the knack
business region; marketing area; commercial sphere; trading area; region in which a business operates
promptly; quickly; without delay; before others; first
to make contact (with); to get in touch; to enter into relations; to come to an understanding
traction; towing; hauling; driving (e.g. economic growth)
to satisfy the requirements
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
use; exercise (of one's right, authority, power, etc.)
not entirely wrong but not entirely right; so-so; average
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
form; shape; figure; morph
established policy; existing procedures
unspecified large number (of people)
hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
having many difficulties in store; grim prospects
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor; (lit.) to touch the scale on a dragon's throat
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; dated word; word that has become passé
phrase; phrase; strawberry
electrophone; electronic musical instrument
general term; generic name
observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking
before anything else; first of all
conventional and uninteresting; stereotypical and boring; commonplace; unsociable; unfriendly; cold
specific gravity; relative density; relative importance; weight
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
makings (of); aptitude; talent; nature; character; temperament
to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake