expression:

• wasting one's efforts; rendering one's efforts futile - idiom

expression / noun:

• the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - idiom

expression / noun:

• heavily made-up woman; flour-shop burglar [literal] - archaism - derogatory term - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in ruins; to be dilapidated; to be desolated - because shepherd's purse is a weed that often grows in abandoned areas - idiom ➜ ぺんぺん草【ぺんぺんぐさ】

expression:

• by reading books you can count the wise philosophers of the past as friends (Mencius) - four character idiom

expression:

• with shoes on
• rudely; thoughtlessly - often in the forms 土足で踏み込む and 土足で踏みにじる - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to become independent - idiom
• to leave one's hands; to leave one's possession

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rake over the coals; to scold; to chastise; to roast - idiom ➜ 灸を据える
• to burn moxa on the skin - orig. meaning ➜ 灸を据える

expression:

• not worth doing; waste of effort - idiom

expression:

• having no effect; waste of effort - idiom

expression:

• a bit better than; not much more than; not much different from - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to engage in a bloody feud; to have a family quarrel; to quarrel with one's own flesh and blood; to wash blood for blood [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be indicated as the winner of a bout by the raising of the referee's fan - Sumo term
• to be declared the winner - idiom

expression:

• still having a very small chance; still having a tiny shred of hope - idiom

expression:

• I wish the same for myself - idiom - humorous term

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a pass at; to hit on; to call out to (in an attempt to seduce) - colloquialism - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom

expression / noun:

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

expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sleep like a log; to sleep like a baby - idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to do something stupid; to do something pointless; to hit a muddy rice field with a stick [literal] - obscure term - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a cross to bear; to carry a heavy burden - idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• frivolity; superficiality; fickleness; lack of substance - four character idiom - obscure term ➜ 軽佻浮薄