thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting
all together now!; one, two, go!; ready, set, go!; heave, ho!; oops-a-daisy
eating heavily; hearty eating; binge eating; big eater; trencherman; gormandizer
mass meeting; convention; tournament; competition; grand event
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
adds force or indicates command
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
diligently; seriously; perfectly; properly; sufficiently; satisfactorily
fried beef or pork offal (entrails)
to come and stay; to drop in; to visit
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
interference; intervention; meddling
trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger (on two-way radio)
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to subsist; to keep on living
just kidding; not!; ersatz; imitation; phony
to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out
classification; color coding; colour coding; color keying; colour keying; differentiation using different colors (colours)
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
crude; unrefined; coarse; ill-mannered; rude; insensitive
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now