ice cream with milk-solids content of 3% or greater
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
ice cream; flavoured ice; sherbet
mix; mixed-race person; multiracial person
base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag
milk; breast; loop; decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
to be profitable (business); to pay; to be in the black
on bad terms; at loggerheads
Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan)
right in the middle (of); midst; height
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
single-lens reflex camera
no matter what; whatever you say; in the end
feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
and (so); (and) then; because of which; in addition to that
to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off
order; reservation; order; sequence; order (of magnitude); architectural order
expanding into a chain (e.g. store, hotel); development of chain stores
foolish; idiotic; stupid; ridiculous; absurd
(food) coloring; pigment; dye; coloring agent
(person) seeming like a genius; (having) the temperament of a prodigy
one's own judgement (judgment); decision made without consulting others; arbitrary decision; dogmatism
opposite effect; adverse effect; backfiring
fancy goods; cute accessories (often product tie-ins)
(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
difficult to ...; hard to ...
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
anyway; by the way; incidentally; well; to change the subject