to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree
kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)
anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
article for sale; goods for sale; offering; specialty; selling point
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to get impatient; to become irritated; to fret; to chafe
to become dull; to become lifeless; to get bored; to lose interest; to lose value after a peak (e.g. stock); to weaken (of the market)
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
tatami room; dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
explanation (of a text, phrase, etc.); lecture; explanation (in a pompous fashion); (long-winded) lecture; (arch.) storytelling
How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
business practice; business method; commerce; commercial law
to be profitable; to yield a profit
to sink (into); to get depressed
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
killing time; staving off boredom
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors
that; the matter in question
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
to begin to strike; to kick out; to forcefully expel; to hammer (pattern, etc.) into metal
tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing
participation; joining; entry; adherence
on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
urbane and good-looking woman
intolerable; unbearable; irresistible; tremendous; cannot help (doing); cannot but do