office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
here and there; little by little; sporadically; dots; spots
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
to do together; to share; to participate in
extremely cold feeling that makes one feel numb; sharp pain that is almost numbing; heartrending; touching the heart
caller; visitor; company; guest
temporary; provisional; interim
tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous
out of the question; outrageous; impossible; irrelevant; not pertinent
of good character; kindhearted; good-natured
physical work; manual labour (labor)
lightly; easily; carelessly
to set (sun); to become dark
blockhead; dunce; dimwit; dolt; slowcoach; slowpoke
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
to tuck (e.g. sleeves); to roll up
troublesome; pain in the butt
stupid brat; son of a bitch
yes; sure; gotcha; sycophantically; servilely; fawningly
former (e.g. name); previous; changed; examination; inspection; investigation
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
to express (in words); to confess
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
prototype; model; pattern; archetypal
idol (i.e. carving or painting of a deity)
founder; originator; pioneer
tradition; legend; folklore
(religious) faith; belief; creed
thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting