cash; ready money; money on hand; mercenary; self-interested; calculating
Italian food; Italian cooking; Italian cuisine
similar but different; alike only in appearance; falsely similar; spurious; sham; pseudo-
chain store; retail chain; restaurant chain
chain (bicycle, measuring, tire, etc.); chain (store, hotel, etc.)
head (of a line, group, etc.); front; lead; forefront; vanguard
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
signal; signalling; signaling; traffic light; traffic signal
usual; normal; long (of time); old; for a long time; for a while
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
nice; good; well-executed
external (hard drive, disk drive, etc.)
espresso (coffee); expresso
busiest and most profitable business period; peak season
key; mode (in gagaku); time; tempo; meter (of a poem); metre; style
fashion sense; sense of fashion
street survey; opinion poll performed on street; on-street questionnaire
university student; college student
good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)
foursome; group of four people; Gang of Four (Maoist political faction)
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps; stet (proofreading)
to gulp down (alcohol, poison, etc.); to quaff; to down
taking a breather; relaxation; rest; vent; ventilation opening
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults
paying back in installments (instalments); amortization plan (amortisation); gradual progression (oft. into an unwanted state); doing little by little; proceeding in a continual and vague fashion; gradually obscuring
pouring out in large amounts; flowing out gushingly
meddling (in); butting in; interference; poking one's nose into
(in the same way) as before; as always
greed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
close friendship; close friend; good friend; intimate relations; sexual intercourse; sex
two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; two people cut from the same cloth
reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it)