とりあえず
for now, first of all
The waiter is at the table and nobody has opened the menu. Beer, says Torrey. Ah, easy, and the rest gets sorted when it turns up: とりあえず.
Parks the decision rather than making it. とりあえずビール is the whole of Friday night in one word.
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