expression / ichidan verb:

• to be allowed to practice with a partner of higher skill (esp. in sumo) ➜ 胸を貸す

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sit on the edge of one's seat; to be in breathless suspense

expression:

• good medicine tastes bitter; the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to - proverb

noun:

• Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be born (of a baby); to come into the world

noun:

• waiting in front of a temple to be accepted for training (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term

expression:

• a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be able to hold one's head up (of a baby)

expression:

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

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

expression:

• to be; to exist - abbreviation - archaism - polite language ➜ 御座んす

expression:

• one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost - four character idiom

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本開き
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本切羽
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• apartment too small to be legally rented out, and hence let as office or storage space

noun:

• a number so great it can never be counted to - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "asamkhya"

numeric:

• 10^56 (or 10^64)

noun:

• non-smokers' rights; right for nonsmokers to not be exposed to smoking in public space

noun:

• buffer (full) error (i.e. space cannot be reserved as it is full)

noun:

• crime of conscience
• premeditated crime; act carried out while knowing that it should not be - originally considered an incorrect usage - colloquialism

adverb / ~の noun:

• strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)

noun:

• kun (in Chinese mythology, giant fish said to be able to turn into a bird) - archaism ➜ 鵬

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to learn a lesson (usu. from an unpleasant experience); to be good for someone

expression:

• it can't be helped; there's nothing to do about it - From Chinese "méi fǎzi" ➜ しかたがない