impossible; unlikely; improbable
social conditions; social situation; state of society; social landscape; social climate
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
to entrust; to send (a message, etc.)
hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
to wheeze; to breathe with difficulty; to gasp
forget it; forget what I just said; scratch that; check that
to finish reading; to read through
to keep talking; to go on and on; to talk non-stop
hideout; secret base of operations; safe house
plaster or mortar-covered wall
anpan; bread roll filled with red bean paste
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
repetitious; long-winded; heavy (taste); (overly) rich; gaudy (colour, design, etc.); loud
interruption (e.g. of a conversation)
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
lattice; counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish); handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)
transportation; conveyance; delivery; hospitalization; transfer to hospital
promising without due consideration
cooperation; collaboration
clanging (of a bell); jangling; ding-dong; continuously; incessantly; one after another
out of office; out of power; in opposition; unaffiliated (e.g. researcher, scientist); in private practice