suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for

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

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• latest; most recent; nearest (in time)

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [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 / ichidan verb:

• to put in a word for; to second; to support

expression:

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

noun:

• pick-up knowledge; second-hand knowledge; hearsay

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

noun:

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

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:

• 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:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

prefix:

• every other; second; alternate

expression / adjective:

• unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away

expression:

• money speaks louder than words; money is better than (empty) words; yen bills over salutations [literal] - pun on 挨拶 and 円札 both ending in さつ - proverb - humorous term

expression:

• if possible; if it is in my power; if it was realistic

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month

expression:

• this very day; today is the day (that ...); today for sure