standard; set; routine; decided
first sunrise of the year; sunrise on New Year's Day
terrible luck; very bad luck
slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)
plectrum; pick; drumstick for Japanese drums (e.g. taiko)
bad reputation; disgrace; unpopularity
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
crisp; staccato; piquant; clear
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
Jersey (Britain) (island)
whereabout; about where; how much
delinquent (youth); delinquency; Yankee
hip-hop culture; Black culture (esp. breakdancing culture)
pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed
to refer to; to use as reference
to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on; to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
break in contact; not hearing from; having no communication with
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
to boil; to seethe; to be oppressed by heat
particularly; only; in the case of
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
glaring; flaming; fiery; blazing
sweetbread; thymus or pancreas (esp. of a calf or a lamb)
to dribble; to spill; to suspend; to hang down; to slouch
to compliment and criticize lavishly (criticise)
how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship