adjectival noun / noun:

• very strange; bizarre; weird; mysterious - four character idiom

noun:

• ingenious scheme - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• something easy to do; cinch - idiom

~の noun / noun:

• winding; meandering; sinuous; zigzag - four character idiom

noun:

• expulsion (from school) - four character idiom

noun:

• construction at top speed - four character idiom

noun:

• (punishment by) striking with fists - four character idiom

noun:

• sober and honest - four character idiom

noun:

• immediate neighborhood; immediate neighbourhood - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• neighborhood nuisance; neighbourhood nuisance - four character idiom

noun:

• developing new ideas based on study of the past; learning from the past - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• paternalism - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• being majestic; with great pomp and circumstance; with an imposing air - four character idiom

noun:

• traveling in luxury; travelling in luxury; junket - four character idiom

noun:

• policy favouring major powers (favoring); policy of great powers favorable only to themselves - four character idiom

noun:

• broad perspective - four character idiom

noun:

• large pink (Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus) - four character idiom ➜ 撫子
• woman who displays the feminine virtues of old Japan

adjectival noun / noun:

• audacity; daredevil (attitude) - four character idiom

noun:

• restoration of imperial rule - four character idiom ➜ 明治維新【めいじいしん】

noun:

• ham actor - four character idiom

noun:

• great compassion and mercy - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• various difficulties - four character idiom

noun:

• fickle but kind-hearted - four character idiom

noun:

• eloquence or flattery designed to deceive - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• (printed or written in) large letters - four character idiom