thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to take; to catch; to capture
bent back; indecisive attitude; timidity; lack of nerve
to lay out (a futon); to make (bed); to spread out; to postpone; to extend
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
stickiness; viscosity; tenacity; persistence
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
so what!; who gives a damn?
by all means; no matter what; at any rate
no matter what happens; in any circumstances; at any price
reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end
to say no more; to sink into silence
15th day of the 8th lunar month
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future
clipping (of newspaper article, etc.); cutting; scrap (for a scrapbook); cut-out (picture, coloured paper, etc.)
come on; hurry up; chop chop; yeah; that's right; exactly
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
standard; basis; principle
tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard
whole face; all over one's face
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
inconvenient (residence); unpleasant (surroundings); difficult (to live in)
lion; left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine