noun:

• doing a job; riding and sweating up a horse

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• a little too short
• slightly worse; a bit inferior

noun / ~する noun:

• eating with a guest
• nominal official (a slighting term)

noun:

• a strong beginning and a weak ending; an anticlimax - four character idiom

noun:

• good bargain; a find; godsend; a steal

noun:

• a well equipped with a pulley for drawing water

noun / ~する noun:

• tuning (e.g. a radio, a television); channel selection

noun:

• deciding match (in a competition for a cup (pennant))

noun / ~する noun:

• novelization; novelisation; turning a film script into a novel ➜ ノベライゼーション

noun:

• beginning (developing into) a quarrel (a fight, an altercation) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• undergo a complete change; turn over a new leaf - four character idiom

noun:

• (adopting) a publicity (an advertising) policy; a propaganda line - four character idiom

noun:

• casting a coquettish (an amorous) glance (at a man) - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜に烏

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜の烏

noun:

• a spring that gushes forth from a valley

expression / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• just now; a little while back; a short time ago

noun:

• pot with a bail for a handle ➜ 鍋

expression:

• a neighbour is better than a relative living far - proverb

expression:

• A wise man changes his mind, a fool never - proverb

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to span (e.g. a stream with a bridge)

noun / ~する noun:

• rough sketch used as a guideline for a picture ➜ 下書き

noun:

• dress worn by a geisha to a zashiki party ➜ 座敷

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to start (e.g. a scene, a war, etc.) ➜ 幕を切る

noun:

• frog in a well; "someone with a narrow perspective" [figurative]