face outline; contours of a face
wrinkle reduction; rhytidoplasty
hemorrhoids; haemorrhoids; blind piles
San Francisco (abbr); Cisco Systems (abbr); Sysco
clear accounting; honest accounting (billing); transparent billing practices (in restaurant and bar charges, etc.)
scuba; self-contained under-water breathing apparatus
obsession with changing one's appearance; desire to change
unattractive, uncouth man
chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and served on rice
wet towel (supplied at table); hot, moistened hand towel
sweet rice jelly; Edo-period herbal medicine (used as an antitussive and a breath freshener)
pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping); high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower
high academic achievement; advanced academic training; higher education
at all costs; at any cost; surmounting all difficulties
ornamental crossed rafter ends on shrine gables
prone (to); liable (to); apt (to); tending (to)
intolerant; small-minded; inflexible; unforgiving; unyielding; ungenerous
nature of one's business; business instinct
thereupon; therefore; because of that
to easily defeat; to eat (one's opponent) alive; to bilk; to swindle; to dupe
failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name
anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; (lit.) clothes on a packhorse driver
decorative ridge-end tile (traditionally bearing the face of a demon and resembling a gargoyle); hideous face
old hag; old woman; old bat
making the numbers balance; fixing the numbers; number-juggling; making up the numbers (e.g. to form a majority)
to be jealous of; to envy; to begrudge
engineering firm; contractor
Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities
not knowing at all (that); without the slightest idea (that); completely unaware (that)
straightforwardly; being outspoken