lust for money; hunger for money
to be smeared; to be covered
faking crying; crocodile tears
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
to stop crying; to cry oneself out
a little; paltry; piddling; stud; chad
cup sake; sake sold in a single-serve glass cup or can
being seen here and there; appearing in various places
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
personal (employee); employed; retained
muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking
to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple
teacher (to whom one owes a debt of gratitude); mentor; one's former teacher
even though; despite; notwithstanding
to banter; to make fun of; to cool; to refrigerate; to window-shop; to look at without buying
to knock down; to knock out
interception (email); wiretap; bug
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
influential person; man of importance
house search (e.g. by the police)
washing; sashimi chilled in iced water
efforts; exertion; endeavour; assistance; services
reckoning from some position (e.g. point, date, etc.)
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
supreme command; direction over all
refining; refinement; smelting
rail (track); (curtain) rail; track (for a sliding door); groundwork; spadework
iron pipe; steel pipe; metal pipe
to be moist; to be damp; to profit by; to receive benefits; to become rich; to become at ease financially
project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
town; city; municipal; urban
cold storage; refrigeration
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
(the) whole; as a whole; in general; at large