jpdb beta

older brother

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lending (money, commodities, etc.); finance; loan; adaptability; versatility; flexibility

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hindrance; obstacle; impediment; annoyance (to others); offence; harm

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confession

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weak-willed; easily pressured; pushover

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not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited

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fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

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if that's the case ...; if so ...; that being the case ...

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forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money

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just right (time, size, length, etc.)

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to leak; to run out

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what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels

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to remember; to keep in mind

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to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)

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person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person

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oath; vow

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opinion; point of view

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to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet

1

liar; fibber; lying

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private; personal

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to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen

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to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)

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just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

1

trade; trading

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to get change back; to be more than enough

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after a meal

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then; in that case; considering; if that is the case; if so

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good-looking guy; handsome man; hunk; Adonis; cool guy

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sea bass (esp. the Japanese sea bass)

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on the occasion of; at the time of

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tea (esp. green or barley); tea break; teatime; tea ceremony

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with a slamming noise (e.g. door, telephone receiver); with a banging noise; with a clash; with a clank; with a bang

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open-mouthed

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see; you see; ha

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bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement

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to look around; to survey

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relatively quickly (esp. actions); quite suddenly (esp. wind, rain, etc.)

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to become pale; to turn pale

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to recall; to remember

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thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

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unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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sudden reversal (of behavior, opinion, attitude, etc.); about-face; flip-flop

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equality; impartiality; evenness

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(treating) equally; without discrimination; impartially; alike; in the same way

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newcomer; initiate; rookie

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chores; odd jobs; miscellaneous affairs; miscellaneous expenses

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gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else

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to tell (to do); to order; to tell (on someone); to report; to often say; to be used to saying

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