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to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

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talking in one's sleep; somniloquy; nonsense; gibberish

2

to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble

2

naughty boy; mischievous boy; little rascal; brat

1

lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)

1

chief clerk (in a shop, managing affairs on the owner's behalf); head clerk; store manager

1

folding fan

4

ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

2

to re-cover; to reupholster; to repaper; to renew (e.g. a plaster)

1

drawing ability; skill at art

1

painter; artist; illustrator

4

young and energetic; up-and-coming

2

pastime; hobby; favorite amusement; dissipation; debauchery; loose living

2

artist

3

high; noble; refined; advanced

1

of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)

2

student (esp. a university student)

3

painter; artist

7

portrait of a beautiful woman (esp. ukiyo-e); bijin-ga

5

poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

7

to dash off (a piece of writing); to scribble; to scrawl

1

anger

1

confusion; complications; being gripped by strong feelings; fit (e.g. of anger); moment (e.g. of frustration)

1

inspection; examination; survey

3

attractive to men; in a style (appearance, look, etc.) that men fall for; amorous woman

1

to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to

3

fair copy; clean copy

2

folding screen

6

mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling; mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam; mochi rice cake

12

residential area

6

public order; public peace; public security; law and order

8

thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances

3

middle class

1

mud wall

1

to hit; to beat; to shout at; to yell at

3

left in a state of neglect; left to go to ruin; left to run wild (e.g. of a garden)

1

supporter; sponsor; patron; backer

2

painting; picture

2

eggshell

1

forearm

3

slender build; slender figure; leptosome; leptosomatic habit

1

diarrhea; diarrhoea

11

boiling up

13

unboiled water

3

low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

2

area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances

6

monger; peddling

3

as you can imagine; as imagined

7

blue mold; blue mould; penicillium

1

good grief

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