Short for ひやけサロン.

(bookstore jargon) stacking books on top of each other, facing upwards

to sit on the fence; to be opportunistic

tideland

The way to distinguish an olive flounder from a righteye flounder. 鮃(ひらめ) (hirame, “olive flounder”) can be distinguished from 鰈(かれい) (karei, “righteye flounder”) by noting that the eyes of the former are on the left and the eyes of the latter are on the right.

dusk / twilight / livelihood / make a living / spend time

(of water) to draw; to scoop; to ladle; to pump / (of feelings) to understand; to consider

fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

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