supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
to be transparent; to show through
burly; strong; indomitable; indefatigable; robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc.); strong
(only) one option; one possible choice
rum raisin; raisins marinated in rum
pardon me for leaving (first)
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
being dead drunk; drunken stupor
opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable
interruption; suspension; break
to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
free time; time at leisure
opening (in a game of go, chess, etc.); early stages; initial phase; outset
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
inquiry; enquiry; investigation; (police) interview; questioning (e.g. witness, suspect); hearing
true state; actual condition; reality
calabash (Lagenaria siceraria); bottle gourd; gourd (container); calabash
something appearing from a place you wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; (lit.) a horse from a gourd; something impossible; something ridiculous
corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
grandfather; male senior-citizen
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
henry (unit of inductance)
independence; self-reliance
decision; determination; resolution
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
to become empty; to be emptied
(with a) whizzing sound; sound of something whizzing by
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
surname; family name; last name
taking over; handing over; transfer of control; inheriting; passing on the baton