noun:

• dime novel - four character idiom

noun:

• hack writer - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• human-interest article; page-three news; police news - four character idiom

noun:

• rush of business; versatility; man who can do the work of many - four character idiom

noun:

• scenic beauty - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• arguments for and against; pros and cons; mixed reception; mixed reviews - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• traffic network extending in all directions - four character idiom

noun:

• in all directions - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody - four character idiom

noun:

• hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants in Edo society - four character idiom

noun:

• being at one's wit's end; being (quite) at a loss (what to do) - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical - four character idiom

noun:

• unimportant details; inessentials - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun / ~する noun:

• being irresistible; being furiously vigorous; being intensely forceful - four character idiom

noun:

• as good as waste paper; mere scrap of paper - four character idiom

noun:

• ex-post-facto approval - four character idiom

noun:

• admiration of the powerful - four character idiom

noun:

• worship of the powerful - four character idiom

noun:

• sophistry - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• self-contradiction - four character idiom

noun:

• self suggestion; autosuggestion - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• self-sacrifice; self-renunciation - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• selfishness; egotism; egoism; egocentricity - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• overconfident; presumptuous - four character idiom

noun:

• being caught in one's own trap - four character idiom