expression:

• would be a waste of words; would be a waste of breath; there's no point in saying

noun / ~する noun:

• fighting a good fight; putting up a good fight; fighting bravely

noun:

• telephone receiver; telephone mouthpiece
• making a telephone call; receiving a telephone call ➜ 電話口に出る【でんわぐちにでる】

expression / adjective:

• sarcastic; having a sharp tongue; having a sharp nasty tongue ➜ 口の悪い

noun / ~する noun:

• realization of a great ambition; realisation of a great ambition - four character idiom

noun:

• salted entrails of a sea cucumber; salted entrails of a trepang ➜ 海鼠【こ】

noun:

• head of a police station; chief of a police station; superintendent

noun:

• land owned by a Shinto shrine
• land owned by a company ➜ 社有地【しゃゆうち】

noun / ~する noun:

• filling in gaps; filling in blanks (in a form, etc.); stopgap; temporary measure
• covering up a deficit; making up for something (e.g. one's mistake)

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer) - archaism
• hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 獣狩り

noun:

• place containing a Buddhist image
• place containing a buddha (e.g. the pure land) ➜ 極楽・浄土
• independent workshop of Buddhist sculptors (from the Heian period onward) ➜ 造仏所

noun:

• thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap
• re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable) - orig. meaning

adverbial noun / noun:

• limit; limits; bounds
• degree; extent; scope
• as far as possible; as much as possible; to the best of one's ability; very much
• unless (after neg. verb)
• the end; the last

suffix:

• as long as; only

noun / ~の noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady ➜ ご主人
• one's husband
• (one's) employer; (one's) master
• host; hostess

conjunction:

• but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well

particle:

• even
• however; no matter how; even if; even though
• ... or something
• either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... - as 〜でも〜でも

prefix:

• pseudo-; quack; in-name-only - before an occupation, etc.
• for lack of anything better to do - before an occupation, etc. ➜ でもしか

noun:

• four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room
• small room esp. for assignations

noun:

• (before a) Buddhist altar; before the Buddha
• offering placed on a Buddhist altar; incense money; condolatory offering - oft. as 御~

expression:

• in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log - proverb

suffix noun:

• a little over; a little more than
• powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful

noun:

• appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.
• literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
• face (of a printing type)

noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

noun:

• a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom