tackle (e.g. rugby); fishing tackle
restoration; repair; mending
excluding the case when; when not
fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year; academic year; school year; product year
the preceding year; the previous year; last year
highly unpredictable; touch and go
practice test; practice exam; mock exam
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
(for a conversation) to wander from the subject; to get off track
precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
audience; spectator; spectators
single-mother household; fatherless family
to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; (lit.) to make (grind) one's body into dust
hospitalization; hospitalisation
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
sickroom; hospital room; ward
department store; department
broken; intermittent; disconnected
rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous
pardon; forgiveness; exemption; permission
to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again
The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
snappingly; with a snap; merely ...; having just ...
strength; intensity; strong (e.g. glasses); powerful (e.g. lens); intense (e.g. fear)
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive
to be enchanted; to be charmed
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
gag order; gag rule; gag law
to float upright in the cup (of a tea stem, as a sign of good luck)
public morals; discipline; rules governing social behavior
whether or not; presence or absence
to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about
best-before date (on food); use-by date; expiry date; expiration date
brand; make; description; trading name of stocks and securities