noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun:

• emotion and reason; logic and emotion; justice and compassion (criminal justice context)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back - onomatopoeia
• action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head - onomatopoeia

noun:

• hard education; hard training; Spartan education

noun:

• bunt and run - Baseball term

noun:

• memorandum of agreement on general trade terms and conditions

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up and down; actions; being obliging

noun:

• sweet-and-sour pork

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a hard time of it ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】

expression:

• better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know - proverb

noun:

• diligence and indolence; attendance

noun:

• heaven and earth

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to forgive and forget; to let bygones be bygones; to sweep under the carpet; to wipe the slate clean

noun:

• shelf on which tea and tea implements are kept

noun:

• boiled rice mixed with vegetables and meat or fish - Kansai dialect - Food term ➜ 加薬御飯

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

noun / adjectival noun:

• cruel and inhuman; brutal; merciless - four character idiom

noun:

• fried mochi covered in soy sauce and wrapped in nori - Food term ➜ 磯辺【いそべ】

noun:

• rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• commonplace and stale; humdrum and hackneyed - four character idiom

noun:

• official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)

noun / ~する noun:

• mixing and matching (clothes, accessories, etc.); wearing of an item of clothing in many different combinations

noun:

• Public Corporation and Government Enterprise Labor Relations Law (1949) - obsolete term ➜ 国営企業労働関係法

noun:

• establishing and refuting (a doctrine) - Buddhism term