noun / adjectival noun:

• being euphemistic and circumlocutory - four character idiom

noun:

• heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• free and easy; frank, easy, and openhearted; sophisticatedly refined - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• stubbornly sticking to old ways; narrow-mindedly rejecting other people's views - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• stubbornly sticking to one's own convictions; being stubbornly independent - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• going on and on in tedious detail - four character idiom

noun:

• (a line, queue) being long and serpentine - four character idiom

noun:

• trifling (fight); (a conflict) between small countries - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• hesitation and vacillation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• tossing and turning in bed; turning over in bed worrying over something - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• broad-minded and free in disposition; large-hearted and not scrupulous about trifles - four character idiom

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

expression:

• days and nights passing by quickly; months and years flying by; Time flies - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• (providing) covering fire - four character idiom
• supporting (backing up) someone (in a debate or argument)

noun:

• abhorrence of (living in) this impure world - four character idiom

noun:

• apprenticeship in the running of a household; prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• being full of vitality (energy); vigorous and in high spirits - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• it (the weather) being piercing (bitterly) cold - four character idiom

noun:

• winter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season - four character idiom

noun:

• wiles and cunning; craftiness and treachery - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (a person with) strong moral fiber (backbone, determination) - four character idiom