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Robert Woodhead

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Carmi

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one-two punch

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Nolte

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Rinjirou

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lucky seventh (inning); seventh-inning stretch

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Jean-Claude Leuyer

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good at playing along; up for anything; carefree; uplifting; upbeat

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square bracket; Japanese-style quotation marks

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funazushi; old-style fermented crucian carp sushi

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some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste

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fuck you

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closing price

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to be upside-down

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to draw upon one's profound knowledge

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plunger (for unblocking sinks, toilets, etc.); rubber cup

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rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse

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Cornwell

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finishing touch; completing (something) by executing the final, critical step

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laugh line; smile line; nasolabial fold

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foot fastening (ski); binding

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Abiko Takemaru (1962.10-)

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buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books; tsundoku; books bought but not read

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foie gras

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to distract one's attention

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driving on two wheels; ski (driving stunt); skiing

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purse with a metal clasp; handbag (with clasp); pouch (with clasp); coin purse (with clasp)

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samosa

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Japanese sardinella (Sardinella zunasi)

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kiwi (Apteryx spp.); kiwi fruit (Actinidia deliciosa)

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to put in a (plaster) cast

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wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder); slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder

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retail store; retail shop

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Italian food

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modern art

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storm petrel (any bird of family Hydrobatidae)

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fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried; Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder; (arch.) black soybean sprouts fried in sesame seed oil wrapped in dried beancurd and stewed

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export controls

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pelican crossing; pedestrian light controlled crossing; push-button activated pedestrian crossing; push-button operated

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outburst of cicadas singing; chorus of cicadas

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Hermann Hesse

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fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

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Humphrey Bogart

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Grafton (Australia)

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(random) guess; guesswork; shot in the dark; conjecture

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Euclidean geometry

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dancing or jumping for joy

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as likely as not; 50-50; even match; tie

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being tanned by sunlight reflected from snow; snow-burn

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autofocus

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