family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit
pecking order; hierarchical relationship; vertical relationship; hyponymy
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
to ward off; to brush away; to fling off; to drive away
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
action; operation; effect; function
to grow taller (of people)
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
progress; advance; improvement; development
to take good care of; to treasure; to value; to hold dear; to prize; to cherish
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis
bodily; physical; corporeal; sexual; sensual; of the flesh
at the critical moment; when the time comes; when it's most important; when necessary; in an emergency; when push comes to shove
heavy work; manual labour; feat of strength
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
art of self-defense (defence)
(one's) sleeping hours; hours of sleep
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
interest; eagerness; enthusiasm
to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
meddling; interference; extending a paw to drag something closer; (arch.) hand; (arch.) arm; (arch.) disfigured arm
third day of the month; three days
holding (a conference, exhibition, etc.); opening; hosting (e.g. the Olympics)
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
familiarity (of a sound, etc.)
hereditary disposition; temperament; nature; (arch.) body build
from the viewpoint of; according to
choices; alternatives; options
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
detached building; solitary house; room detached from main house; separation from; loss of interest in; independence of