great disturbance; great tumult; turmoil; wild uproar; pandemonium
seeing things in a favourable light (favorable)
sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass
kitchen; financial situation; finances
searching an entire house; searching a house thoroughly; house hunting
home; household; family; hearth
to eat up; to consume (completely)
going out to shop; going shopping; buying in quantity; buying wholesale; bulk purchasing
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
overcoat; greatcoat; cloak; wrap; mantle
armed forces; military; (common) soldier; rank-and-file soldier; underling; ordinary employee
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
alert status; emergency alert
important point; emphasis; iteration mark; colon (punctuation)
central part; heart (of a city, etc.)
level; standard; water level
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
coach and four; four horse coach
detour; circuitous route; diversion
wooded country; wooded (timber) region; woodland; woodlands
big frame; large figure; huge body
imperial envoy; imperial messenger
to equivocate; to beat around the bush
firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc.; in front of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy)
pride; boast; credit (to)
(really) terrible; awful; (very) nasty; (extremely) harsh; severe
thickheaded; obstinate; inflexible; stubborn
comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable
(it was) no bother at all; not at all; it was nothing
to replace; to convert; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
involving only the parties concerned; tete-a-tete
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
to force one's way through
defile; narrow path; bottleneck; impasse
depending on the answer; hinging on the reply
determination; conviction
preemptive strike; preemptive attack; first strike
to bend a bow; to shoot an arrow; to rise up against; to rebel against