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selling like mad; selling like hotcakes; flying off the shelves

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death march; death march (in software development); crunch

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patent; special permission; licence (license); proprietary

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acquisition; obtaining; gaining possession; purchase

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peace; harmony

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pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked

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to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

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dawn; daybreak

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one's wife; wife (of somebody below the speaker in rank)

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hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible

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hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy

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... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...

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to be of use as a reference; to be helpful

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the same opinion

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support; stay; prop

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sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence

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confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

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gloomy; obscure

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joy; pleasure; delight

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spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful

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toadstool; poisonous mushroom

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to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

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pictorial book; picture book; illustrated reference book; identification manual; field guide

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few in number

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boastful talk about one's love life; speaking fondly about one's sweetheart; going on about one's love affairs

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correction; revision; rectification

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insistence; (major) emphasis; stress

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single woman; spinster

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dead of night (when even the trees and plants sleep)

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sleepy; drowsy

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sleeping pill; sleep medication

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medicines; drugs

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mixing; compounding; dispensing (e.g. prescription)

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to make a sound

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food

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silencing (e.g. machine); muffling; muting (e.g. TV)

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embroidery

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to trip (over); to stumble; to fail; to suffer a setback

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to slip through; to make one's way through quickly

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sound collection

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eavesdropping; tapping

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selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available; commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf

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department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category

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counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level

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business opportunity

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to walk in on; to tread upon

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just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

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mysterious disappearance; being spirited away

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honesty; integrity; purity and unselfishness

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rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

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