dress; attire; clothing; getup; outfit; personal appearance
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
shirt (undergarment); undershirt; singlet; shirt (outerwear; usu. with collar and buttons)
ten-gallon hat; cowboy hat
high class; high grade; high rank; seniority
leather; leather-bound; leathern
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
trade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing
making money; making a profit
pit of the stomach; solar plexus
elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff
hard lump under the skin (e.g. adipous tumor, lymph node tumor, etc.); grinding against; pressing or rubbing with turning movements (e.g. someone's shoulders with one's elbow); rolling one's eyes; goggling one's eyes; rattling sound
violent explosion; bursting
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
influence; power; (arch.) flapping of wings
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
easy money; easy gain; making a killing
golden; gold-colored; gold-coloured; honey-colour
one's say; one's point; complaint; grievance; objection
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
number of times; frequency; count
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
needless fear; groundless apprehension; unfounded worry
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
advance payment; money paid in advance
affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious
(bowing and) greeting; (arch.) declining; (arch.) refusing
generously; liberally; magnanimously
market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
right away; without delay; as soon as possible; very soon
to start a journey; to embark on a trip; to set forth; to hit the trail