noun:

• writing life; period of life spent writing

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; water on a frog's face [literal]

adverb:

• thuddingly; plumping down (like a heavy weight) - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to feel more like (a certain mood)

noun:

• cliff that stands tall like a wall ➜ 壁立千仞

adverb:

• meekly; obediently; submissively; quietly; like a lamb ➜ 大人しい

expression / noun:

• a matter of life and death

noun:

• life in a foreign country; living abroad

noun:

• tongue
• tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)

noun:

• host in a bar for male homosexuals; effeminate man who talks and dresses like a woman; young male homosexual - From English "gay boy"

noun:

• nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

noun / ~の noun:

• phantom; vision; illusion; dream; apparition

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a long life; to live a long time

expression:

• A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to offer something to a deity or somebody's spirit
• to pay a tribute to a person who is about to depart

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; what is a paradise on hearsay maybe a hell at sight [literal] - proverb

noun:

• correct style in a haiku (like Basho's)

noun:

• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - Food term ➜ 蒲鉾【かまぼこ】

noun:

• rough skin (like that of a shark)

noun:

• soaked to the skin; like a drowned rat

noun:

• hand used like a sword in striking

expression:

• like dew or lightning, gone in a flash ➜ 如露如電

expression:

• risky thing to do (like feeding a fox) - idiom ➜ 猫に鰹節

expression / ~と adverb:

• bringing up (one's daughter) like a princess