beauty; good figure; (beautiful) appearance; beautification; beauty treatment; beauty culture
stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving
to feel goodwill (towards); to wish someone well; to have a strong liking (for); to be emotionally involved
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
manner of speaking; verbal argument; objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee); rumor; rumour
being off guard; being defenseless
to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
absolutely essential; indispensable; vital; critical
pro-am; combination of professional and amateur players
set meal; special (of the day)
definite decision; final decision
festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle
paper scoop used in goldfish scooping
target practice; marksmanship; target shooting (e.g. at a fair)
soaked; drenched; sopping; incessantly (raining); drizzling
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
takoyaki; octopus dumplings
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
to miss a chance to ask; to miss an opportunity to ask; to forget to ask
unable to stomach; sticking in one's throat; displeased with
abuse; curse; swearing; insult
separate case; another matter
to beat around the bush; to not speak frankly; to talk in a roundabout way
partly puffed up; bubblingly
insensitive; inconsiderate; callous; thick-skinned
being at cross-purposes from the start; getting off on the wrong foot; (lit.) doing up one's buttons wrongly
to not match well (e.g. at the seams); to not mesh properly (of gears); to differ (e.g. of opinions); to clash; to be in conflict (e.g. with the facts)
to make an example of; to make a victim of; to hold up somebody (something) to ridicule; to pierce with a spear
response; reply; answer; defence; defense
thieving cat; adulterer; homewrecker
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
omission (of middle part of a text); ellipsis
going back to the beginning (in a discussion, argument, etc.); returning to the fundamental points (of the issue at hand); discussion of how things began (in the first place)