expression:

• any time now (waiting, hoping for something to happen)

expression:

• (in spite of) being old enough to know better ➜ いい年して

noun:

• mods (trendy young people in early '60s Britain)

noun:

• mitre (joint, in woodworking); miter

noun:

• football (incl. soccer, rugby, American football, etc.; esp. used for soccer)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be uniform (in size and quality); to be uniformly good

noun:

• four brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); four bright cards; four light cards; five hikari cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• rectangular-shaped thin-bladed knife (esp. used for vegetables)

noun:

• signing ceremony (for a law, treaty, etc.)

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

noun:

• four-letter word (esp. in English) ➜ 四文字言葉

noun:

• pulling something out (in a stroke); plucking out
• forcibly removing one after another (e.g. demonstrators)
• overtaking multiple people (in a spurt); pulling ahead

noun:

• Pele's hair (threads of volcanic glass formed in mid-air)

noun:

• secondary cooling water (esp. in a pressurized water reactor)

noun:

• Triakis (genus of houndshark in the family Triakidae)

noun:

• Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, species of requiem shark found in the northwestern Atlantic)

noun:

• metal fiber (esp. used in reinforced concrete); steel fiber

noun:

• arrival (in port)

noun:

• great mandala (in Shingon); mandala with an image of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun:

• finelined surgeonfish (Acanthurus grammoptilus, species of Western Pacific tang found in the Philippines, Indonesia and north-western Australia)

noun:

• player character or vehicle (in video games)

noun / ~する noun:

• training (branches in horticulture)

noun:

• kanji radical 13 ("upside-down box")

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom