(sales) promotion; (sales, advertising) campaign; campaign (for an election, social change, etc.); movement; (military) campaign
free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling
suitcase (with wheels and telescopic handle); trolley case
defenseless; defenceless; unprotected; vulnerable
totteringly; with tottering steps; toddling
carry-back; bringing the ball back to one's own position (in rugby); carryback; carrying over a deduction or credit from a prior year to the current year (to reduce income tax)
loosely dangling; lightly swaying; (walking) leisurely; aimlessly; idly; lazily
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
limpness; soft; limp; mumbling; talking with food in one's mouth
baby talk; baby language; babbling
assuming that ...; supposing that ...
irregular (schedule, service, etc.); indeterminate (length of time); staggered (payments)
to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)
estimate; estimation; valuation; quotation
unconventional; eccentric; offbeat; aberrant; outlandish; crazy
makimono; handscroll; roll of cloth (for making a kimono); scarf; stole; makizushi
sushi roll (rolled in nori); rolled sushi; norimaki; makizushi
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame
whirlpool; maelstrom; vortex; spiral (shape, pattern)
(woman's) undersash; datemaki; rolled omelette mixed with fish paste (omelet)
matryoshka; Russian nesting doll
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
relatively cheap; relatively inexpensive; on the cheap side; lowish (price)
set (of things); combo; setting up; preparing; setting (hair); set (in tennis, volleyball, etc.); set (in a play, film, etc.)
individual item (i.e. not part of a set); single article; single item out of a set; one item from a set
dinner (esp. a formal one)
superfine; extra-fine; extremely thin; extra-fine woollen yarn
futomaki; thick roll of makizushi; rolling something thickly; something rolled thickly (a cigar, etc.)
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
preserved food boiled in sweetened soy sauce
priority; order of precedence
nothing but; except; no more than
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
deterioration; getting worse; worsening; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
self-hatred; self-abhorrence; self-loathing
coward; chicken; yellow-belly; sneaky person; underhanded person; dastardly person
to be at a loss; to be puzzled