noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

noun:

• unauthorized travel; riding without a valid ticket (e.g. on a train); stealing a ride

noun:

• false start of a bout - Sumo term
• backsies (called when taking back a move in a game)

noun / ~する noun:

• caricaturing
• turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something ➜ 漫画

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

noun:

• person who is ready to comment on every subject; ready critic - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to win every battle (that is fought); to be ever victorious - obscure term

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

expression:

• love is blind; (when in love) even pockmarks are dimples [literal] - proverb

noun:

• woman purported to bring good luck to the man she is near - colloquialism

expression:

• as is usual with; in common with ➜ 御多分

expression:

• as expected; just as I thought it would; that is exactly why... - archaism

noun:

• someone whose state is slightly poorer than regular poverty ➜ ビンベスト・貧乏
• 2nd degree poverty

expression:

• good wine makes good blood; sake is the best of all medicines - proverb

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• independent city; city that is not part of another local government entity

noun:

• insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice color

expression:

• the world is at peace; bows in bags and swords in sheaths [literal] - proverb

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to read (somebody's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking - usu. ～の... - idiom

adjective:

• friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

noun:

• (a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

adverb / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• a little; partially; somewhat; slightly; semi-; -ish; on the ... side; a short time; a while