evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
small theatre; kabuki performed in a small theatre; little performance; short acted scene; act
to be of use as a reference; to be helpful
creakily; close (i.e. with no room to spare)
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to act as innocent
something or other; somehow
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout
leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
notice; attention; observation
fleeting (glimpse, glance, etc.)
improvisation; improvised; impromptu; extempore
drama; play; powerful drug
all you have to do is; just; that's all
it's none of your business; it's not your concern
plump; rotund; chubby; entirely; completely; wholly
seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
price; cost; value; worth; value
to be different from what was previously said; to be different from what was promised
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
tedious; lengthy; overlong; long-winded
sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
(laughing) foolishly; (smiling) thoughtlessly; indiscreetly (talking); carelessly (speaking); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
can do nothing but (do); cannot help (doing) something
next work (writer, composer, etc.)
on the occasion of; at the time of
getting tired of; getting sick of; getting bored with; getting fed up with
to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with
preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist
to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor
contrived; false-sounding