expression:

• waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; When the sky falls, we shall catch larks - four character idiom

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes give good counsel - four character idiom

noun:

• all expenses - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• as fierce and nimble as any; daring and agile without equal - four character idiom

noun:

• tragic love story; tale of tragic love - four character idiom

noun:

• tending to anemia; being somewhat anemic - four character idiom

noun:

• piggybacking marketing; the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• of low (mean, inferior) character - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• of lofty (noble, virtuous) character - four character idiom

noun:

• rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks - four character idiom

noun:

• cause (grounds) for concern (anxiety); reasons for uneasiness - four character idiom

noun:

• wealth, rank, and arrogant splendor - four character idiom

expression:

• Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow - four character idiom

noun:

• getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• manners and customs; customs and habits - four character idiom

noun:

• offense against public morals; morals offense; vice crime - four character idiom

noun:

• climate and natural features (of a region) - four character idiom

noun:

• elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

noun:

• an impossibility - four character idiom

noun:

• free and independent - four character idiom

noun:

• adultery; infidelity - four character idiom

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

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom