painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
sacrificial pawn; sacrificed piece; sacrifice
fair and square; open and aboveboard; bold and forthright
eros; sexual desire; Eros (god); (Platonic) Eros; Eros (asteroid)
to think of; to come up with
trial product; prototype model
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
plating (chrome, gold, silver, etc.); coating; gilding; pretense; pretence; simulation
to resort to violence; to use force; to be able to get; to be able to afford; to jab; to swing at a bad ball (baseball)
self-respect; self-confidence; guts; backbone; pride; drive
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
negative emotions; negative feelings
curse; spell; malediction
the dark side; the seamy side
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
staying behind; remaining; residual
side; flank; profile; aspect; dimension
to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink
eight (long cylindrical things)
to take (someone) to one place after another (forcibly); to drag (someone) around
within the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
hostess bar; bar with female companions for male customers
sushi shop; sushi restaurant; sushi bar
to treat (someone) to (something); to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live in luxury; to be proud; to be haughty
sleeping; feeling sleepy; beddy-bye
levitation; floating on air; airborne (e.g. bacteria); aero-
you can never be too careful; you can't be too cautious; better safe than sorry
still more; to say nothing of; not to mention; still less
common knowledge; being well-known; making (something) well-known