Public Employment Security Office; PESO
scallion; shallot; green onion; spring onion
Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
mobile van where blood is collected from donors; bloodmobile
gloomy and depressing; mournful
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
nakiri knife; vegetable knife
bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt
logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (tuberculosis vaccine); BCG
high-handed person; domineering person
darn it!; darn!; oops!; oh dear!; oh no!
direct voyage; direct service
modern; up-to-date; art nouveau; Beaujolais nouveau (wine); vague; fuzzy
shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream
tour conductor; tour guide
bovine spongiform encephalopathy; BSE; mad cow disease
having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth; shrieking sound; woman's scream; cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
direct (telephone) line; direct dialing
even monkeys fall from trees; anyone can make a mistake; pride comes before a fall; even Homer sometimes nods
Japanese sardinella (Sardinella zunasi)
crushed stone; macadam; crushing (rock)
fried food wrapped in nori
Declaration of the Rights of Man (during the French Revolution; 1789)
all kinds of things; various things; large number of people
participant in a group tour; group tourist
removal of astringent taste (e.g. by cooking)
stretching; sidestroke (swimming)
the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down