noun / ~の noun:

• overhead; above one's head; high in the sky

noun:

• blue sky
• erudition; detachment from the world; high rank

noun:

• food served during the New Year's Holidays - abbreviation ➜ お節料理

noun:

• first business conducted by retailers in the New Year ➜ 初買い

noun:

• GI; G.I.; soldier in the US Army - from "galvanized iron" or "government issue" - colloquialism

noun:

• Zipangu (the name for Japan used by Marco Polo) - From Italian

noun:

• soap
• brothel where one can bathe with the prostitutes - abbreviation - slang ➜ ソープランド

noun:

• noodle
• TV personality who has appeared in the nude - abbreviation - slang ➜ アイドル・ヌード

noun / ~する noun:

• arguing someone down; scolding; rebuking
• proclaiming (the truth); expounding

noun:

• bitter enemies (placed by fate) in the same boat - four character idiom ➜ 呉越【ごえつ】

noun / ~する noun:

• proof to the contrary; disproof; counter-evidence; rebuttal; refutation

noun:

• full particulars; the whole story; from beginning to end - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• entering the priesthood; cenobite (coenobite); priest; monk; nun - Buddhism term ➜ 在家

noun / ~の noun:

• (treasuring something by) never taking (it) off the premises - four character idiom

noun:

• haniwa; hollow unglazed terracotta figure from the Kofun period

noun / ~する noun:

• lengthy military expedition

noun:

• the Long March (China, 1934-1936)

expression / conjunction:

• ... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...

expression / adverb:

• like; similar to
• as with; in the same way

noun:

• in the hole

noun:

• off the record

noun:

• on the mark

noun:

• on the rocks

noun:

• gunfighter (esp. in the American Old West); gunslinger; gunman

noun:

• pitch that hits the batter - Baseball term - From English "dead ball"

noun:

• final effort before the end - From English "last heavy"