jpdb beta

smelling of mud or earth; unrefined; uncouth

1

request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance

6

declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice

1

running away from home; elopement; (arch.) outing; (arch.) going out; (arch.) becoming a Buddhist monk; (arch.) entering the priesthood

1

searching for someone; search for a missing person; searching for a (job) candidate; recruitment; scouting

1

rent

1

falling behind (with a payment); being in arrears; non-payment; default; delinquency

1

square bracket; Japanese-style quotation marks

1

descriptive (narrative) part

2

separate; special; another; separately

1

to kick away; to kick off; to kick hard; to refuse curtly; to reject outright

1

twosome; duo; pair (of criminals)

1

catchphrase; promotional line; slogan

1

handful; small amount; small number

1

customer traffic; customers; custom

1

public finance; financial affairs; financial situation

1

tightness (of money, financial conditions, etc.); pressure; stringency; being strained (of a situation); being tense; being pressing

1

major incident; major happening; big scandal

1

great detective

3

training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

1

to pout

2

thrusting technique

1

bullying; teasing

1

hand-to-hand combat

1

tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training

1

link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic

1

goes without saying; needless to say; obvious

1

criminal investigation department; CID; criminal investigation section

1

uncle

1

second cousin

3

different mother

3

friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy

1

one way or another; in many ways; in various ways

2

wisdom; wit; sagacity; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)

1

to count on; to expect; to put confidence in; to trust in; to depend on

3

might as well

1

tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)

1

person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff

1

to demand gratitude; to do something for someone in order to create an obligation of gratitude from that person

1

loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback

4

contact; contact lens

1

careless person; scatterbrain; birdbrain; hasty person

1

toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.

2

for visitors or guests

1

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

1

at once; immediately; without delay; promptly

2

fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale

2

duty of confidentiality

1

outsider; someone outside of a group

1

cliche; platitude; formula; set phrase

1