thank you for your continued patronage
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward; gift
papa; dad; daddy; sugar daddy
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one
fate; chance; relationship; tie
fair-skinned; light-complexioned
no!; no no!; no, not at all
perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
how many months?; how long?
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
on bad terms; at loggerheads
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
secrecy; confidentiality; privacy; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal)
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
yatsuhashi; cinnamon-seasoned rice flour cracknel (local delicacy in Kyoto); zigzag bridge
overseas student; exchange student
studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)
to hesitate; to think twice; to flinch; to get cold feet
environment; circumstance
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
obstinate person; stubbornness; pigheadedness; hard head (like a rock)
heart attack; myocardial infarction
(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure
love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections
working for a company; being employed by a company
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)