light; easy; non-serious; minor
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
what do you want?; can I help you?
correction; revision; amendment
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation
cesspool; sink; manure sink
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
to be too numerous; to be too much
admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled
opinion; view; comment; scolding; reprimand; rebuke
moderate (degree); proper (amount); temperate; suitable
recording (in a book, the minutes, etc.); printing; including; recording (audio or video)
making a guest appearance; guest starring
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
(not possible) on such short notice
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
being out of time; passing the deadline; time-out
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away
having at one's mercy; trifling with; toying with; playing with; making a fool of; leading around by the nose
cheerful; buoyant; lighthearted
passing through without stopping; passing by
principle; aim; purport; gist; instructions; orders
writing; composition; essay; sentence
change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift
homeroom; form room; home run; human resources; HR; heart rate
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
one shot; one charge; one blow; one punch; home run; one try; one attempt
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
abdomen; belly; womb; one's mind; one's real intentions; courage; nerve
to rub; to pat; to stroke; to massage
buying and eating sweets (esp. of children); between-meal snacking
upper arm; (arch.) lower arm
Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
to overlook (a mistake, fault, etc.); to tolerate; to let pass; to give someone a break; to let someone off lightly; to be lenient
carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease
conversely; on the contrary