work; business; company; study
cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine
school district; school area
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
first month of the lunar calendar; January
natural virtue; personal virtue
what the hell; oh, great!; son of a gun; holy mackerel; oh no!; holy cow!
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile
to put on weight; to gain weight; to grow fat; to get stout
uncertain; doubtful; unreliable; unsteady; unclear; vague
(one's) figure; build; physique; style
constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up
small fraction; small proportion
to expose (to the sun, public, danger, etc.); to bleach; to refine; to rinse (vegetables); to soak; to doxx
to inflict; to impose (a fine, etc.)
alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)
to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)
to head home; to leave for home
point in common; common feature
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)
to be lit (e.g. electricity comes on); to be lighted; to catch fire
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
one scene (e.g. in a movie)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
game of make-believe; child's play; pretend play
domineering husband; hectoring husband; husband who rules the roost
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
within a marriage; between husband and wife; conjugal
standard; set; routine; decided
promise; agreement; arrangement; something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)
boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)