tension; mental strain; nervousness
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
shrewd; smart (and wide-awake); inedible; uneatable; unable to support oneself; unable to keep body and soul together
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
really; truly; indeed; good grief
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
tall story; tall tale; cock-and-bull story
to take seriously; to believe in; to fall for
he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
in that way; thus; so; so?
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous
celebrity; famous person; public figure; big name
to travel all over; to be active in places widely apart
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
police; police officer; police station
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to stand; to rise; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
rikka; formal style of ikebana
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to take by deception; to defraud someone of; to swindle someone out of; to cheat someone out of
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
loss (of assets, profit, etc.)
destruction; annihilation; devastation; catastrophe