with all due respect; I'm sorry, but ...; I'm afraid ...
daily supplies; daily necessities; household items; housewares
to enquire; to inquire; to seek information
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
uprising (esp. in Japan since middle ages, e.g. peasant uprising); revolt; insurrection; putsch; riot
to tell (to do); to order; to tell on (someone); to tattle; to often say
to be extremely difficult; to present a major challenge
one's dearest wish; Buddha's vow to save humanity
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
earpick; ear cleaning (with an earpick)
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
returned goods; returning purchased goods
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
articulation; speaking one's lines smoothly; reciting one's lines well
cutlet (usu. crumbed and fried)
pochette; pouch (usu. hung from the shoulder by a long cord)
silly person; dumb-bunny; dope
line; queue; procession; matrix
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign
to become speechless; to be at a loss for words
anywhere; here and there; common; run-of-the-mill; ordinary
to be true to nature; to be lifelike
stingy; mean; narrow-minded; petty; shabby; poor
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
word game; wordplay; playing with words
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
crow (Corvus spp.); raven
Bible; the Scriptures; Holy Writ
first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only
(jumping) nimbly; light-footed; boing; used at sentence end to affect cuteness
unfashionable; uncouth; unrefined; unpolished; unsophisticated