expression:

• sorry; excuse me; thank you - colloquialism ➜ 済みません

noun:

• sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance - four character idiom

expression:

• to whom it may concern; to the involved parties; to all persons concerned - honorific language

expression:

• the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through; the long arm of the law doesn't reach everywhere; fishes big enough to eat boats aren't caught by the net [literal] - proverb

adjectival noun / noun:

• covering; filled in; gapless; all over - usu. as べたに

prefix noun:

• complete; total - before a noun

adjectival noun:

• cliched; clichéd; hackneyed; corny; predictable - colloquialism

~の noun:

• plaintext - IT term

noun:

• solid printing; solid typesetting - abbreviation ➜ べた組み
• contact print - abbreviation ➜ べた焼き

expression:

• paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reaping what you sow - idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• firmly; plentifully; with all one's might - onomatopoeia

expression / adverb / ~の noun:

• win or lose; sink or swim; make or break; all or nothing

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• deserted and lonesome; quiet and alone; innocent and nonattached; All is void - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• bench (i.e. for bathroom); seat; small piece of furniture upon which one can sit on ➜ 腰掛け

expression / ~の noun:

• as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for

expression / adjective:

• avoided by everybody; disliked by everybody; not even a dog will eat [literal]

expression:

• it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London - proverb

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go to prison; to serve a prison term; to eat foul-smelling food [literal]

noun:

• whole nation; entire nation; all the people

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

noun:

• present location; current location; "you are here" (on map)

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

noun / adjectival noun:

• freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

noun:

• great and small; in detail; all

expression:

• everybody; every last one of them; all - usu. negative nuance - idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• completely; entirely; all - onomatopoeia
• in large amounts; a lot - onomatopoeia

expression:

• nothing to be afraid of; trivial; not amounting to much; can't do anything