obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
age difference; disparity in age; age gap
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very
these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)
career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
what's what; heads or tails
and; thereupon; because of that
to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve
to rise; to erect; to get up
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
unreasonable; irrational; outrageous; absurd
to remain; to stay (somewhere)
bumping of heads; running into; coming across; encountering
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof
I see; that's right; indeed
difficult to ...; hard to ...
separate; scattered; apart
distrust of (other) human beings
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
outline; summary; gist; roughly; about; nearly
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
the matter you have been talking about
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)
this is why; this means; it is the case that
at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together