adverb:

• as one would expect ➜ 流石
• still; all the same

expression / adverb:

• as one would expect ➜ さすがに

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

expression:

• what would (you) do?; what to do about it

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

expression:

• a real man would (shut up and) ... - preceding a verb, etc. ➜ 漢【おとこ】

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

adjectival noun / noun / prefix:

• false; would-be; sham; pretended; mock; spurious; pseudo; quasi

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

expression:

• as expected; just as I thought it would; that is exactly why... - archaism

expression:

• honey is sweet, but the bee stings; I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life [literal]; hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences - proverb ➜ フグ

auxiliary adjective:

• want to ... do something; would like to ... - after the -masu stem of a verb

particle:

• indicates emphasis - at sentence-end - Kyūshū dialect

suffix / adjective:

• very ... - after a noun or the -masu stem of a verb; also ったい ➜ めでたい

expression:

• innocent-looking; looking as though butter would not melt in the mouth

noun:

• antiking; would-be king

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day ➜ 三度の飯より好き【さんどのめしよりすき】

noun:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

expression / adjective:

• extremely busy; so busy one would even welcome the help of a cat [literal] - idiom

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day [literal]

expression:

• one cannot escape from one's worldly desires; the hounds of earthly desires would return each time they are driven away [literal] - proverb

expression / adjective:

• not all bad; not as dissatisfied (or annoyed) as one would have others believe

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• self-proclaimed; self-professed; self-styled; would-be

noun / ~する noun:

• professing oneself to be; calling oneself; describing oneself as

noun:

• first person - Linguistics term

adjective:

• difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect

noun / ~の noun:

• pseudo-scholar; fake scholar; would-be expert - four character idiom

expression:

• I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ... - usu. verb-て...

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb