noun:

• the wise and the foolish

noun:

• the third estate; the bourgeoisie

noun:

• the fourth estate; the proletariat

noun:

• the ocean; the great deep

expression:

• the positive and the negative

expression / noun:

• the Sermon on the Mount

noun:

• the masses; the people

noun:

• the sun and the earth

noun:

• the year of the Dragon

noun / ~の noun:

• the greatest of the day - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• the greatest of the day - four character idiom

noun:

• the people; the public; citizens

noun:

• the people; the public; citizenry - archaism ➜ 国民

noun:

• pauper; the needy; the poor

noun:

• the press; (in the) newspapers

noun:

• the masses; the people; populace ➜ 民衆

expression / ~よい adjective:

• the more, the better

expression:

• the Alpha and the Omega - idiom

expression:

• the Alpha and the Omega - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• felt hat - abbreviation ➜ 中折れ帽子
• stopping in the middle; being interrupted in the middle; being broken in the middle
• prematurely going soft during intercourse - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first
• constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

auxiliary:

• if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that - hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle
• as for; on the topic of ［なら］

conjunction:

• if that's the case; if so; that being the case - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ それなら
• if possible; if circumstances allow ［ならば］

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to be smashed
• to split; to crack; to fissure; to be torn
• to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party)
• to come to light; to become clear; to be identified; to be revealed
• to be distorted (of a sound)
• to be divisible (without a remainder)
• to go below a minimum