big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with
the very end; finish; to the very end; to the last; thoroughly
to snarl (at each other); to growl (angrily); to quarrel; to fight; to argue
(not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least; (not) in the slightest
sly; cunning; sneaky; crafty; unfair; dishonest
to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head; to lose one's cool; to be obsessed; to be infatuated; to become conceited
boiled octopus; person as red as a lobster
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn
unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
to make a success in life
juice; sap; soup; broth; (dipping) sauce
leading part; leading actor; leading actress
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
very popular; highly favoured
mark; guide; purpose; aim; sight (on a firearm)
figure eight; figure of eight; shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
to run past from behind; to run through (e.g. gate, one's mind)
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
considerably; greatly; a lot
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; shichimi pepper
how; in what way; by what means
good looks; pretty woman; good-looking woman
person of firm character; stable person; gutsy person
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
natural disaster; cataclysm
advance warning; previous notice; announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
feeling of relief (for the time being); peace of mind (for now)
talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk
gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism
go that far; to that extent
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of