doctor; PhD; exposition; fair; exhibition
beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end
to tie; to fix; to attach
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
pushy; pushing; self-assertive
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
prior to; before; in advance of; the other day; some time ago; recently
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
having to be; must be; should be; ought to be
paper for fans or parasols (cut in a fan shape); ground paper; backing paper
long time (since the last time); first in a long time
in terms of; from the point of view of
estimate (of costs); budget
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
amount of money; sum of money
demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
anyway; anyhow; as one likes; by all means; at any cost; no matter what it takes
to get; to obtain; to come by; to find
to thrust before; to thrust at
wee-wee; pee-pee; number one
warming up sake; warmed sake
to lash out at; to flare up at; to fly at; to turn on
crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling
no big deal; no match; not worth worrying about
leading; prominent; eminent; counting on one's fingers
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
bum; slacker; good-for-nothing; loser
to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back
racketeer; thug; rogue; bully; fixer
something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time
main question; real issue at hand
wife and children; (arch.) wife