jpdb beta

note; memo; memorandum

4

stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete

1

charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

1

having special circumstances (e.g. problems, issues, advantages, flaws, defects, etc.); imperfect (merchandise); with defects

1

to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to

1

to take a nap; to catch forty winks; to catch some Z's

2

to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms

1

being absorbed in; losing oneself in; losing control of oneself

1

to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

2

washing one's hands; water (or basin, etc.) for washing one's hands; restroom; lavatory; hand-washing (laundry, etc.)

3

sentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish

1

whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events; (lit.) whether you laugh or cry

1

hypocrisy

1

to raise (one's head)

1

cage; pen; (jail) cell

2

on the way home from work; returning from work

1

hey; listen

1

coat; coating

3

female office worker; office lady; overlap; orienteering

1

twosome; duo; pair (of criminals)

1

to be impatient for; to wait (anxiously) for; to eagerly look forward to; to long for

1

appointed time; timetable; schedule

2

you are quite right; reasonable; natural; just

2

birthplace

1

sad; melancholy

1

resignation; leaving office; leaving work (e.g. at the end of the day)

2

wet towel (supplied at table); hot, moistened hand towel

1

bothersome; tiresome; bother to do

1

standard; set; routine; decided

1

medium-size draft beer

1

to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)

1

leisurely; slowly; soon; shortly; here and there; scattered

1

although; though; despite the fact that ...

3

foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead

1

give up

1

flow

2

street at night; making a night journey

2

slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

anyway; either way; one way or the other; whichever; whatever

2

devious; cunning; sly; crafty

1

stepwise; one step at a time

1

capable of anything; liable to do

1

failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards

1

to make someone cry; to move someone to tears; to grieve

1

wife

3

child

1

air conditioning

1

cut; reduction; curtailment

1

labour shortage; labor shortage; shortage of workers; shortage of hands

5

time of departure; (on the) point of departure; just as one is leaving

1