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fool; idiot

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Maida, Calabria

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Salix koriyanagi (species of willow)

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repagination; new page; form feed; page break

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Maoist group

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fly in the ointment; small flaw in otherwise perfect object; only trouble; only fault

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braiding stand with a circular top

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to kidnap

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quick; swift; nimble; quick (understanding, judgement, etc.); alert; prompt

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fa jin; releasing internal power explosively

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how others look at you; what others think about you

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to be charmed by; to be attracted to; to be taken with; to be drawn to

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to choose by lot

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I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...

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to fart; to break wind

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gender gap; male-female divide

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new season (e.g. of TV programming); new term

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one's main profession

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things depend on how you look at them

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threefold; folded in three

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to make sure of

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the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

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right and wrong

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black rockfish (Sebastes inermis); darkbanded rockfish

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books for loan

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rental library

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Pygmalion (mythology)

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conchiglie

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to be beside oneself; to lose one's head; to go mad with something

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falling plump; falling down flat

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to take the law into one's own hands

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pot; (arch.) typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period; working at night; female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite)

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odd job

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pure; clean; untouched; innocent

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to have one's faults exposed; to have one's secrets blown

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to reveal the faults

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The Nonpareil Kitchen (nickname for Osaka); The Kitchen of the Nation

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vaginal discharge; menstruation; afterbirth

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slow to understand; slow-witted

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long sword cloth bag; bag for long swords

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nature itself is a good mother; (lit.) even without parents, children grow up

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the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)

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to blow down (fruit)

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difficult to approach; inaccessible

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wind-swept; exposed to the wind

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extremely bothersome; extremely tiresome; extremely troublesome; very tedious

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chooser; selector

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to fiddle with; to play with

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the biggest fish is always the one that got away

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to clear one's name

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