Vocabulary

signature phrase; signature saying; closing spiel; surefire line; catchphrase

pectoral girdle; shoulder girdle

maternal inheritance

sick; nauseated

consolation

shiruko shop; sweet red-bean soup shop

to reseat oneself; to correct one's posture

telegony; influence of a previous sire on the offspring of a female with a later sire (discredited theory of heredity)

gene; genetic factor; genetic element

large grass yellow (species of butterfly, Eurema hecabe); common grass yellow

to get entangled (with each other)

fine white noodles served flowing in a small flume

box lunches for delivery; catering meal

to eat a boxed lunch

round box for apportioning individual rice servings

pho (Vietnamese noodle soup)

pad thai; phat thai; phad thai; Thai rice noodle dish

not a number; NaN

Chinese fancy mouse (usu. all-white with red eyes)

Japanese dancing mouse (Mus musculus musculus)

right-angled loop (used in plumbing); right-angled expansion pipe; torii-shaped piping

to retighten

upheaval; upthrust; uplift

just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays

to leave

on the way home from work

to dart away; to dart off; to gallop away

rowdy fellow; tough; bully; ruffian

living together (of two people)

very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow

bathwater

LOL; ROTFL; haha

curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

change toward a borderless world; development of a borderless world

borderless

lack of boundary; borderless (psych.); confluence (psych.)

breaking down boundaries; overcoming barriers (psych.)

weakened boundary; perforated boundary; dissolved boundary

weakened border; porous border; open border

liberation; reaching enlightenment