eye; eyes; sight; vision; looking
article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
class; heading; group; category
declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down; withdrawal (e.g. of candidacy); pulling out (e.g. of a race)
price reduction; discount
to beat someone to the punch; to get the drop on (someone); to forestall
thank you for your continued patronage
half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality
to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange; to tie; to bind; to fasten
to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
competition rate; success rate; ratio of successful (applicants) to total applicants
fate; chance; relationship; tie
coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing
to be in confusion or commotion; to be in a turmoil; to be crowded or jammed with people
ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer
taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...
insolent fellow; rude fellow
crude; unrefined; coarse; ill-mannered; rude; insensitive
angry voice; one's voice when shouting with anger
to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside
to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside; to set aside; to keep apart; to remove (someone) from the group; to shun
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
empty-handed; unarmed; lacking funds
being empty-handed; being penniless; having no capital (for starting a business)
to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive
to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
pit of the stomach; solar plexus
a blink of time; (lit.) the time it takes to say "Ah!"
safety; welfare; well-being
blow to a vital point of a person's body; striking techniques (judo)
(one's) life is not in danger; not life-threatening
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
background (of a case, incident, etc.)
nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...