reversal; return; return gift; return favour; barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin
proposal; proposition; suggestion
to ask elsewhere; to try another (store, service, etc.)
blunder; bungle; clumsiness
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to get caught; to be nabbed
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
kindness (shown by others); courtesy; favor; favour; good offices
to loiter; to hang around; to wander around; to prowl; to roam
eyesore; offensive sight; offense to the eye; obstruction (to the view of something)
to be forestalled; to be taken in; to be cheated; to be outwitted
sightseeing; watching; viewing; sightseer; spectator; viewer
clever; intelligent; bright; well-behaved (esp. of children and pets); obedient; good
exactly right!; indeed; damn straight
does not; can not; will not
profit; earnings; stroke of luck
period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years); apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture
frightening; scary; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) exaggerated; (arch.) huge
worthless; insignificant; unimportant; poor; miserable; wretched
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
this family; our family; this house; we
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
(Oh) dear!; (Oh) dear me!; Good gracious
gem; jewel; precious stone
to creep up to; to approach stealthily; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed
gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by
praise; admiration; commendation; approbation; applause
to have an eye on; to zero in on
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
to lure (someone) toward one; to lure (into); to entice
to erase all trace of something
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
helplessly; easily; without resistance; without regret
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
another name; different name; synonym; alias; pseudonym; pen name