expression:

• a drowning man will catch at a straw - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to a club (one was formerly a member of) - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

expression:

• You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom

noun:

• running style (of a horse, e.g. a front runner)

noun:

• papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting

noun:

• storage chest for a suit of armour and a helmet

noun:

• coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil

noun:

• blow to a vital point of a person's body - Martial Arts term ➜ 当て身【あてみ】

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression:

• more than a friend (implies a degree of intimacy)

expression:

• taking a cut from a thief's plunder; vile deed

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
• to unsew; to unstitch
• to solve; to work out; to answer
• to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
• to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
• to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
• to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair) ➜ 梳く【すく】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

expression:

• it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that ➜ 訳ではない

noun:

• plan which is shown on the left; left-most plan; map on the left (chart, graph) ➜ 右図

expression:

• things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy - idiom

particle:

• too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence)
• both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) - as ＡもＢも
• even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than - used for emphasis or to express absence of doubt regarding a quantity, etc.
• even if; even though; although; in spite of - often as 〜ても, 〜でも, 〜とも, etc.

adverb:

• further; more; again; another; the other - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ もう

noun:

• guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane)
• drawing room

noun:

• before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet ➜ 仏前
• offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; somewhat; a little; a few; some

noun:

• amount; quantity

noun / ~する noun:

• boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)