expression:

• if it does not exist; if it is not there; if it is not ... ➜ 無い【ない】

suffix:

• unless one ...; if one does not ... ➜ ない

expression / ~の noun:

• can be dispensed with; be better without; useless ➜ なくてもよい

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

expression:

• one cannot live solely by oneself; one cannot accomplish anything solely by oneself; cannot clap with just one hand [literal] - proverb

noun / adverb:

• all that one has; all that there is; the whole ➜ 有りっ丈

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• self-inflicted accident; traffic accident where injury is caused by one's own negligence; one-car accident

expression:

• a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• hopeless; good-for-nothing; incorrigible

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• calm or at rest; having nothing to do; still

noun:

• awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

noun:

• ice color; insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice dye ➜ 氷染染料

adjective:

• bored; having nothing to do; idle

expression:

• as soon as; no sooner than; one way or another

noun:

• objection

noun:

• stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task - four character idiom

noun:

• tub-thumping preacher; preacher (priest) who is good at delivering a sermon; pulpiteer (usually with contemptuous implication) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to outwit; to get the better of; to overcome a superior opponent and leave him speechless

expression:

• words can lead to disaster; the tongue is the root of calamities; the more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it - proverb

expression / adjective:

• of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless

adverb:

• by; not later than; before

expression / adjective:

• cannot (do); it is impossible that...; it is (highly) unlikely that... ➜ 筈

expression / adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done; at the striped mullet's ultimate maturity (when the striped mullet is fully grown) [literal] ➜ 鯔【とど】

expression / adjective:

• of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless - idiom