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better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know

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hostess club; bar with female companions for male customers

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slit; interstice; narrow aperture

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to do something ridiculous; to do something bizarre; (lit.) to boil tea in one's navel

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dividing a plant's roots for transplanting

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Pfaltz

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to be able to see far into the distance; to have good long-distance vision

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a born fool is never cured; (lit.) there is no medicine for fools

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to pull around; to drag around; to take around; to show around

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dirt mound; dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

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one's own way of thinking; one's independent approach

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to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn

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deposit (received)

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pan; griddle

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nature of one's position

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spin out

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Britney

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matters (issues) that need be reconsidered (reflected on)

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sacrament

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Japanese clethra; tree clethra; clethra barbinervis

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stallion

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to face the wrong way; to go in the wrong direction

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lava tube

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slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen)

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tally; check; piece of wood or paper split in half and given to each party as a form of proof (e.g. of a transaction)

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big and brawny; well built; gigantic

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to go into opposition

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to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about

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perfect

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to hit a nerve; to get on one's nerves

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abrupt turn; sudden change

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marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green algae; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

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loss of momentum or follow-through as a result of impact; getting knocked aside

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to set (citizens) to work; to employ (by force); to use

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(the two persons' sides) being evenly matched in ability

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rendering what little service one can

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due to the fact that; because of

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front (in battle)

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please; please give me; please do for me

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bouncily; with a stretch; with a boing

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to assemble (e.g. goods into a set); to gather; to put together

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rest of the payment

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to buy again; to buy anew

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to search for a way out of a potentially fatal situation; to seek for a way out of a desperate situation

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look here; I'll tell you what

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fantastical idea; fanciful notion; bizarre thought

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dark purple; grape (colour)

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lower portion; base surface; soffit

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win or lose; sink or swim; make or break; all or nothing

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butcher's knife; chef's knife

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