jpdb beta

guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper

1

gravel path; gravel road

1

bell (used for summoning or signalling); buzzer

1

to beg; to ask; to request; to invite

1

to grimace; to frown

1

who

2

here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now

1

to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please

1

turning another away at the gate or front door; refusing to receive a caller

1

grimace; sullen face

2

to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of

1

close friend; bosom friend; buddy; crony; chum

1

arrogant; haughty; insolent

2

group engaged in some activity (players, companies, forces, etc.)

1

to overwhelm (e.g. an opponent); to overpower; to overwhelm (someone with emotion); to move; to intimidate; to frighten

1

reluctantly; unwillingly

2

detective bureau; detective agency; investigation firm

1

hero; great man

3

to happen to hear; to overhear

1

remedial measure; countermeasure; counter-measure; relief measure; remedy

1

meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club

1

to learn something through hearing

1

false impression; deceptive appearance; mere show

1

stupid; half-witted; dull-witted; blockhead; idiot; dimwit

1

certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons

1

appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre

1

surely (not); certainly (not)

1

to redeem debts (e.g. of a geisha)

1

Western-style room

3

borrowing

2

blunder; miss; slip; oversight

1

to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into

1

to point (gun at); to hold under one's nose

1

running; gliding; first (harvest) of the season; beginning; start; kitchen sink

1

tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)

1

you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends

3

(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"

2

the end

1

as usual; as is one's habit

2

that's the way it is; such is life

1

to show

3

stinginess; miserliness; shabby; cheap; petty; narrow-minded

1

newly arrived

1

behaving outrageously as though there were no one around; acting without consideration for others; arrogance; audacity; insolence

2

laughing matter

1

until now; so far; up to the present

1

course; route; path; process; means

1

to come fluttering in (e.g. leaves, snow, flowers, etc.); to come dancing in; to drop in unexpectedly; to happen unexpectedly

1

other things; the rest; leisure tasks

1

to set aside

1