serving customers; looking after visitors; reception
point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)
certificate (usually of proof of something); credentials
forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting
to thrust before; to thrust at
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham
to say; to tell; to state; to do
to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)
to overflow from something full
loud laughter; roaring with laughter
to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair
to be silent; to say nothing
right to know; right to access information
the other day; a few days ago
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
arrest; apprehension; capture
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
during imprisonment; while in jail
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
at least; at most; (even) just
to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip
to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat
in person; personally; directly
punishment; spanking; smacking; chastisement; scolding
emission; emanation; letting out (feelings); venting; divergence (of light); divergence
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
contrary to one's expectations
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand
gag order; gag rule; gag law
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
to visit one place after another without plan or effect; to gallivant about
to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish