garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
shopping; purchased goods
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to have a meal; to take a meal
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
foreign; abroad; overseas
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
(one's) favourite food; (one's) favorite food
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
don't you think?; indicates question
direction; orientation; suited to; suitable for; tendency; inclination
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
president (of a society); chairman
rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom
bowl; vessel; container; ability; capacity; calibre
modesty; humility; being humble
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
smelling of mud or earth; unrefined; uncouth
nothing more ... than this; as ... as it could possibly be
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
informal social gathering; convivial meeting; get-together
glass (drinking vessel); glass (material); glasses (eyewear)
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to be embarrassed; to lose face
Champagne glass; Champagne flute
Polygonaceae (knotweed or smartweed family of plants)