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celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position

2

obstacle; impediment; disability; handicap; steeplechase; obstacle race

1

soba restaurant

2

restaurant; specialist

1

tenacious; persevering; persistent; sticky

1

long-established shop; shop of long standing; old shop

1

making frequent appearances; appearing often; appearing and disappearing

1

mealtime

1

illness; condition; -pathy

2

have it your way; to hell with you!; get rooted!; bugger you!

1

to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)

3

soul; soul music

1

mwahahaha (evil laughter); coo coo; cooing; stifled laughter; suppressed laughter; sound of snagging

2

exchange; conversion

6

to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)

3

hard to deal with; hard to handle; difficult; trying; intractable; incorrigible

1

plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice

1

body; body blow

1

to buy again; to buy anew

1

decline; decay

1

thought; idea; conception

4

before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later

1

to stay (at); to stop (at)

2

strong interaction; strong force

1

to ooze (out); to seep

3

to hang on to; to hang from; to hound; to keep after (someone); to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips

3

unfairness; injustice; partiality

2

to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up

1

and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism

1

to behave modestly

1

hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky

1

distinction; discrimination; discernment; identification

1

to narrow in (on); to home in; to focus; to target

1

in the manner of an old person; like that of an old person; fusty; old-fashioned; fogyish

1

to serve as a reference; to provide useful information; to be helpful; to be informative; to be instructive

2

somersault; returning from a destination right after arriving there; non-stop round trip; abrupt change of direction

1

corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

2

committee; commission; board; panel; committee meeting

4

formation; combination

2

(lucky) find; bargain; good buy; treasure trove

1

at any cost; at any price; at any expense

1

sex crime

1

lazybones; good-for-nothing; idler; slacker; loafer

1

if man will not work, he shall not eat; no work, no play

1

bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase

7

carpet bombing

1

public; official

1

booth

3

to scrap; to melt down

1

black magic

1