noun:

• Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") - obscure term ➜ オッカムの剃刀

expression:

• at the time of (ind. opportunity or situation where something should be done)

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef) ➜ 任せる・任せる

expression:

• (it won't be possible) on such short notice

expression:

• not hard to... (in certain circumstances, it would be possible)

noun:

• flour made from parched rice or barley (can be mixed in hot water and drunk)

noun:

• arrow with feathers that curve to the left (the first of two arrows to be fired) ➜ 乙矢

expression / auxiliary:

• does not seem (to be) ➜ では無さそう【ではなさそう】

noun:

• Tochū tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure) ➜ 杜仲

noun:

• arrow with feathers that curve to the right (the second of two arrows to be fired) ➜ 甲矢

noun:

• looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of) - four character idiom

expression:

• (to be ashamed enough) to wish you could just disappear

noun:

• parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar) - Food term ➜ 麦こがし・香煎

expression:

• (to be) natural; (to be) understandable

noun:

• advance payment on behalf of a third party (with expectation that it will be reimbursed)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun:

• outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy ➜ 便壺

noun / ~の noun:

• suspicion of having (or to be making) nuclear weapons

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

noun:

• once-in-a-lifetime encounter (hence should be cherished as such) - four character idiom

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)

noun:

• the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat) - four character idiom

noun:

• Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)