quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit
to gain fame; to make one's name
sudden; unexpected; unpredictable; unforeseen
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
destined; predestined; fated; fateful
composition; setting (of music)
inner; underwear; undergarment; innerwear
to wear extra clothes; to dress formally
timewise; temporal; chronal
starvation; famine; hunger
isolated island; outlying island; leaving an island
prices of commodities; prices (in general); cost-of-living
sudden price jump; steep price rise
penniless; extremely poor; destitute
slightest connection; slender connection; sliver (e.g. of hope); one thread
to go straight to the point; to cut it short
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)
high prices of commodities
krone (Danish or Norwegian currency)
first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence); initials (of one's name)
electronization; digitization; computerization
gold certificate; tradeable coupon redeemable for goods or services
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization
mini-; miniskirt; mini-skirt
Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
outer; outerwear; overgarment
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty