sharing a table with someone you don't know (e.g. at a restaurant)
to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look
(poor) treatment; (bad) behavior; behaviour; action; act
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
to get encouraged; to become heightened in spirits; to recover one's strength
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent; to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
to crack a joke; to tell a joke
superficial; shallow; frivolous; careless; sliding along the surface of something; being slippery
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to
correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up; to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits
early (days); initial stage; initial
mostly; almost; nearly; roughly; approximately; about
new; fresh; new item (e.g. customer, regulation); newly created object; new customer
tailor's (shop); dressmaker's shop; tailor; dressmaker
fruitless effort; wasted effort; abortive scheme; futility
given the situation; now that it has come to this; if it comes to this
changing clothes; change of clothes
slowly (but steadily); gradually; irritatedly; impatiently; scorchingly (of the sun); sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil); sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc.
to put up with; to endure; to bear patiently