noun:

• thick glasses; bottle bottom glasses [literal] - humorous term - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lick someone's boots; to flatter - idiom

expression:

• with a gentle face and a nice word - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pass an exam - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fail an exam - idiom ➜ 桜咲く
• to fall (of cherry blossom petals)

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• troublesome; difficult (e.g. customer, guest, child); laborious (e.g. task, dinner) - idiom ➜ 手が掛かる

noun:

• bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds - often local bureaucrats entertaining central bureaucrats - four character idiom ➜ 接待

noun:

• cornering someone by lying in wait, e.g. for an unexpected interview or photograph; doorstepping - idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• hanging; dangling

expression:

• came here; coming here - idiom
• recently

expression:

• You'll regret this!; I'll get you for this; Just you wait - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• outblooming even a flower (of a young girl); even the flower blushes (before her beauty) [literal] - idiom

expression:

• the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping) - obscure term - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• not give a damn; not care a bit - idiom

expression:

• blacker than black - something originally dark in color appearing even darker - idiom

noun:

• keen eyesight; the eyesight of Lilou (character with superior eyesight in ancient Chinese folklore) [literal] - archaism - idiom

expression:

• precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 壁立・千仞

expression:

• to get more than one requests; to beg for water and receive wine [literal] - idiom

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

expression:

• like minds gather - idiom

expression:

• like minds gather - idiom

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• (something) not coming together (as one had hoped or expected); unfortunate turn of events; unexpected turn; (a) crossbill's beak (which has differently shaped upper and lower parts) [literal] - often as ～の食い違い (with the same meaning) - idiom ➜ 交喙

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear