expression / noun:

• faint breath; dying whisper; at death's door

noun:

• glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to ignore; to disregard; to overlook; to connive at ➜ 不問に付す【ふもんにふす】

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

adjectival noun / noun:

• having one's hands full; not having any room to do more; at the limit

noun:

• Serial ATA; SATA; Serial AT Attachment - IT term

adverb:

• in detail; fully; minutely; at length

noun / ~する noun:

• siesta; nap; catnap; stopping at an inn

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• some day; hereafter; at some future time

noun:

• self-responsibility; on one's own responsibility; at one's own risk

ichidan verb:

• to think something over and over; to rack one's brains; to be at a loss

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

expression:

• once (e.g. "once, when I was studying .."); on one occasion; at one point

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

expression:

• to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

adjectival noun / noun:

• kill-joy; wet-blanket; skeleton at the feast

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

expression:

• but he has to be handsome; that said, only if he's a looker; phrase poking fun at people describing their ideal male partner, as a postscript - humorous term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• nowadays; these days; at present

expression:

• to wait for a good opportunity; to come down on the right side of the fence; to see which way the cat jumps; to wait and see at Horagatoge [literal] - proverb

noun:

• single-pronged vajra; tokko; dokko; copper or iron implement, pointed at both ends, used in esoteric Buddhist rituals - Buddhism term
• cloth of a tokko pattern

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ignore; to disregard; to overlook; to connive at ➜ 不問に付する【ふもんにふする】

godan ~る verb:

• to attack; to strike; to take a swing at

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】