noun:

• being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch - four character idiom

noun:

• optimism - four character idiom

noun:

• each paying for his own account; sharing the expenses; Dutch treat - four character idiom ➜ 割り勘

noun:

• stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• empathy - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

noun:

• life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened - four character idiom

expression:

• being all smiles with joy - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• Jack of all trades and master of none - four character idiom

noun:

• scarcity value; rarity value; preciousness - four character idiom

noun:

• in high spirits; talking big - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• remaining unchanged (from the old state of things); none the better for the change (if at all) - four character idiom

noun:

• snail's pace tactics; walking slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings - four character idiom

noun:

• with an open and calm mind; with no preconceived notions; without reserve; frank; candid - four character idiom

noun:

• gay life - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• co-existence and co-prosperity - four character idiom

noun:

• common front; united front - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• astounding; startling; world-shaking; amazing; earth-shattering - four character idiom

noun:

• prostitution of learning; twisting the truth and truckling to the times - four character idiom

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

noun:

• loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners - four character idiom