noun:

• damage to skin by ceruse

noun:

• one's duty; vocation

noun:

• prostitution in which services are provided by several women in rotation (esp. in "pink salons") ➜ ピンクサロン

noun:

• killing by inches

noun:

• one or the same pot; eating or living together

expression / adverb:

• as hard as one can; with one's whole heart ➜ 捩じり鉢巻き

noun:

• behind one's home; one's backyard

adverb:

• as much as one can; as much as possible ➜ なるたけ・できるだけ・なるべく

expression:

• Unpreparedness is one's greatest enemy; He that is too secure is not safe - four character idiom

noun:

• bath for one's exclusive use

expression / noun:

• one's bosom friend; kindred-spirit

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun / ~する noun:

• winning by an ippon; winning by a point - Martial Arts term

noun:

• selling something by the boxful (in a wooden masu box)

expression / adjective:

• best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fade something by overwashing it

noun / ~の noun:

• relative by marriage; affinity

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable

noun / ~する noun:

• one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose - four character idiom

noun:

• accompanied by a man; accompanied by men

expression:

• having been told something so often that one is fed up with it - abbreviation - idiom - colloquialism ➜ 耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】

noun:

• treating somebody as one's own daughter; someone who is treated as a daughter
• woman who manages geisha (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• hiding one's mistakes (or wrongdoings, etc.)
• back pocket

noun:

• revised by section chief