noun / ~する noun:

• a (single) reading (a perusal) leaves one dumbfounded - four character idiom

noun:

• a foolish older brother and a smart younger - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (in) a humble position with a small stipend - four character idiom

expression:

• a fool may give a wise man counsel - proverb

noun:

• legitimation (of a child born outside a marriage)

expression:

• exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom ➜ 針小棒大

expression:

• eating only a little; having a small appetite ➜ 食の細い

suffix noun:

• looking like a ...; acting as if a ...

noun / ~する noun:

• novelization (turning a film script into a novel)

expression:

• a small leak can sink a great ship - proverb

expression:

• a small leak will sink a great ship - proverb

expression:

• with a gentle face and a nice word - four character idiom

noun:

• aim to make a prefecture a travel destination

noun / ~する noun:

• aim to make a country a travel destination

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to water (a plant, a flower etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a pun on a word

noun:

• archery range (sometimes a front for a brothel) - archaism ➜ 楊弓・矢場【やば】

noun:

• pickle on a stick (usually a cucumber)

noun / ~する noun:

• turning a film, novel, etc. into a manga - From English "comic + -alize"

noun:

• feeling of a golf club hitting a ball

noun / ~する noun:

• tracing a picture of a Buddhist image

~の noun:

• medium-sized (of a flower, esp. a chrysanthemum)

expression:

• a small leak will sink a great ship - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• landing; unloading (e.g. a ship) ➜ 陸揚げ

noun:

• catch (of fish); takings ➜ 漁獲量
• sales (of a shop) ➜ 売上高

noun / ~する noun:

• defloration (e.g. of a geisha)
• preservation (of cut flowers, in ikebana)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem
• to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone