I'm also an English speaker, and I had never heard of "snow job" before it was mentioned and
>>82 explained it.
I suppose even native speakers can benefit from this thread. =)
>>83it's the same from the other perspective, that is, there are several Japanese words for an English one, and I often may choose the wrong one. For an example, if I look up "study", one choice is 「学ぶ」, but another is 「勉強する」 and it would be difficult to just know the difference without an explanation.