reversal; return; return gift; return favour; barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin
socializing; getting on with people; personal relations
if you don't mind; if you like; if you feel up for it; if you're interested
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
Chinese cooking; Chinese food
idly; lazily; aimlessly; evasively; elusively; vaguely
useless; worthless; silly; trivial
someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter; lady consort (to a high personage)
to express in a refined fashion; to weave a web of words
to feel that something is true or actually happening; to hit one (realization, thought); to sink in
to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)
little by little; step by step
substitute (actor); stand-in; fill-in; understudy; double
slightest connection; slender connection; sliver (e.g. of hope); one thread
right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages
pardon me for leaving (first)
swallowing without chewing; swallowing (e.g. a story); accepting without questioning
joke; playfulness; kidding around
dust; small debris (e.g. dirt, crumbs); trash; garbage; negligible amount; tiny bit
to blink (one's eyes) repeatedly
sending dick pics; cyberflashing
big talk; boasting; bragging
very young; childish; immature
just like; exactly like; as if; (do) just like ...; (be) virtually like ...; as if it were ...
Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate
one theory; one opinion; another theory
being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche
attending (school, college, etc.); being enrolled; being a student
to start with the looks; to get the trappings right as the first step; to start (at the wrong end) by focusing on the superficial
to continue without end; to go on to eternity
remembering; recollection; anamnesis; recall (memory); retrieval
reference data; reference material
access (to a place, esp. using public transport); access (to a website, data, etc.)