noun:

• advantages and disadvantages; gain some, lose some - four character idiom

noun:

• illegal arrest and imprisonment resulting in death or bodily injury

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run around; to bustle about; to busy oneself

noun:

• crossed fingers and word said to call someone to be avoided as 'dirty' - children's language

~する noun:

• to cross one's fingers (to ward off 'dirt')

noun / ~する noun:

• turns and twists; ups and downs; meandering; complications; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• heaven, earth and man

noun:

• one's family, relations, and followers - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

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

noun:

• shabby clothes and plain foods - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• mature in age and wisdom; middle-aged

noun / adjectival noun:

• firm and solid; stout and durable - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• the good and the beautiful

noun / adjectival noun:

• wide-ranging and diverse; multifarious - four character idiom

noun:

• sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows

expression / adjective:

• harmless and inoffensive

noun:

• Japan and Russia; Russo-Japanese

noun:

• noon gun

expression:

• missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]

noun:

• simple chicken and rice stir fry dish (usu. flavoured with ketchup or tomato pure) - Food term - From English "chicken rice"

noun:

• officers and men

noun:

• knowledge and virtue

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to ration out and survive on (some food)
• to eke out a living

noun / ~する noun:

• spiritual peace and enlightenment; keeping an unperturbed mind through faith - four character idiom

noun:

• Germany and Britain; German-English

noun:

• song with lyrics about resentment and a sorrowful tune
• resentful complaint