expression:

• nothing comes of nothing; don't expect things to happen on their own - proverb

noun:

• treating someone (to food or drink); entertaining someone (as one's guest) - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world

noun:

• half-assed gyaru; young woman who partially adheres to the gyaru fashion trend - from 中途半端 and ギャル - abbreviation - slang ➜ ギャル

noun:

• Western medicine (as introduced to Japan by the Dutch during the Edo period)

noun:

• attaching (of seaweed or seed oysters) to nets for the purpose of cultivation

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• peach throat monitor (Varanus jobiensis, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia)

noun:

• blank email (e.g. for signing up to an email list) - abbreviation ➜ 空メール【からメール】

noun:

• bald spot (e.g. on a pet due to injury, stress, etc.); bald patch - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• involving the audience (by talking to them, bringing them on stage, etc.)

expression / ~よい adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

noun:

• addendum (to a treaty or contract); annex; annexure; appendix; subsidiary clause
• subordinate clause - Linguistics term

expression:

• before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story - colloquialism ➜ 泣き落とし

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

noun:

• hoverboard; hover board; fictional hovering skateboard from the Back to the Future series

noun / ~する noun:

• putting flyers into mailboxes
• posting (to online message boards, etc.)
• posting (accounting transactions)

noun:

• tower-shaped wooden talisman
• apron-shaped straw deity to ward off disease

noun:

• returning of a package to depot after a failed delivery attempt

expression / noun:

• close acquaintance; relationship where two people are close enough to use familiar language ➜ 爾汝【じじょ】

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression:

• drop dead; go to hell; fuck you; fuck off and die - 氏ね, 市ね are net slang ➜ 死ぬ

noun:

• province of the second highest rank (ritsuryo system)
• provinces close to the capital