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reaching; attaining; arrival

6

combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination

6

"Helping Hands" comedy performance; performance in which one person wears a haori on their shoulders, while another person behind them puts their arms through the sleeves of the haori and feeds the person in front

4

nursery; (breeding) farm

1

eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)

2

grief; sorrow; extreme sadness; heartbreak

2

one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; one's time (to act); one's chance

2

deed; act; conduct; behavior; asceticism

4

heaven's dispensation; divine providence; plan of nature

1

fish sausage

1

(afternoon) nap; sleeping during the day; siesta

3

private property; personal belongings; personal effects

1

to polish; to shine; to burnish; to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone

3

book; volume

2

Unagi Pie (palmier containing eel extracts, made by Shunkado)

1

billiards; pool; snooker; cue sports

1

honeybee (Apis sp.); honey bee

1

body; body blow

2

motherhood; maternity

1

small; little

1

everyday life; daily life

1

a puff; a smoke; (short) rest; break; one dose (of medicine or poison); (brief) lull

1

refreshment; something refreshing; welcome relief; tonic; refreshing medicine

2

to start forgetting

1

my goodness!; good lord!; holy cow!

1

Mirinda

1

love; love (in tennis, badminton, etc.)

1

coward; namby-pamby; wimp; weak-kneed person; spineless person

1

lights-out time

2

negligent; careless; slipshod; slovenly; reckless; irresponsible

3

thick voice; husky voice; guttural voice; voice with a thick accent

1

to make one's rounds; to patrol

1

depending on; dependent on

1

to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around

2

traveling bag; travelling bag; suitcase

1

speaking voice; talking voice

1

mishearing; (feigned) deafness; homophonic translation of song lyrics for comic effect

1

to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

1

to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at

2

to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)

1

remora (any fish of family Echeneidae); suckerfish; live sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates); person who attaches themself to someone else for personal gain; hanger-on

1

side

1

obstacle; hurdle

2

cannot be helped; unavoidable

1

way out; means to escape; escape route

2

to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate

1

for better or worse; luckily or unluckily

1

overcrowding; congestion; overpopulation; crammed (schedule); congested; busy

1

towering; astonishingly high

1

unfairness; injustice; partiality

1