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to narrow; to contract

1

tall and thin; long and thin; lanky; spindly; gangly

2

the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; whether or not

2

neighborhood nuisance; neighbourhood nuisance

3

tightly clenched fist

1

arms; weapon; ordnance

3

result; effect; performance; workmanship; execution; shape and quality (of an article)

1

triumphant air; smugness

4

capture; arrest

1

to bind up; to tie up

2

performance; take; game; season; penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)

6

to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on

6

that is to say; so that means

2

goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark

6

telescope

2

(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely

2

scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding

1

to bend; to flutter; to wave; to yield to; to be swayed by; to bow to

1

to go to; to proceed to; to leave for

3

matter (to discuss); item (on the agenda); issue; (court) case

4

to finish; to end; to close

2

to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered

2

Tomio

3

section chief; laboratory manager; office head; room monitor

1

big shot; higher-ups

1

staff identity card; employee ID card

1

middle-aged man

11

childish; child-like; immature; infantile

1

figure; body shape; build; somatotype; biotype; habitus

2

refined; genteel; graceful; decent

6

tweed

2

menial; meanness; servility; abject

2

private; personal life; (one's) privacy

2

holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

1

exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)

1

thin haired

1

the guilty are audacious; show remorse when you are in the wrong

1

to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge

3

sound of a flat surface repeatedly making contact with something; applying a seal or stamp again and again; pasting (paper) all over; daubing; smearing

1

slight fever

2

unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene

2

woman's body

2

creed; belief; conviction; article of faith

3

individual; one by one

1

ideal; ideals

4

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

1

made-to-order; custom-made

3

being second to none; being in a league of one's own

1

ordinary person; average person; mediocre person

3

measurement round the hips

1