overtime; outside of hours (school, office, surgery, etc.)
discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice); retiring
to be cheap; to be inexpensive
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
disturbance; trouble; ups and downs
human-wave tactics; throwing people at a problem
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; deterioration; degeneration; transmutation
to lie down; to throw oneself down
involuntarily; reluctantly; against one's inclination; against one's will; as a matter of unpleasant necessity; despite oneself
time for reporting to work; time one leaves home to go to work; working hours; number of hours worked
using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out; throwing a ball as hard as one can
small; tiny; (lit.) size of a palm
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)
club budget; club expense
scraps; cut end; cut-off piece
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
split; division; break up
going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth; itachigokko; Japanese children's game
all living things; all God's creatures, great and small
pessimism; negative thinking
to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
to begin falling (e.g. leaves, petals, etc.)
to get tired of eating; to have enough of (a food)
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man