expression:

• with rice stuck on one's face - usu. as a tease: お弁当つけてどこ行くの？ - idiom - humorous term

expression:

• good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile - from Chinese 打開笑門福自來 - four character idiom ➜ 笑う門には福来る

expression:

• good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile - from Chinese 打開笑門福自來 - four character idiom ➜ 笑う門には福来る

expression / adjective:

• out of control; out of hand; unmanageable - idiom ➜ 手がつけられない【てがつけられない】

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

expression / ~よい adjective:

• bright; intelligent - idiom

expression / noun:

• poor medical consultation leading to poor treatment - four character idiom

expression:

• it is not everything to ... - after verb - idiom ➜ ばかりが能ではない

expression:

• (having) ups and downs - idiom

noun:

• gathering of excellent and capable people - four character idiom

expression:

• reinventing the wheel - idiom

expression:

• kome hyappyo; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; hundred sacks of rice [literal] - idiom

noun:

• impregnable fortress; heavily guarded fort - four character idiom - obscure term

expression:

• do your best; give it your all - four character idiom

noun:

• right crop for the land; suitable crop for the land - four character idiom

expression:

• evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom

noun:

• denied freedom (of how to live one's life); living like a caged bird [literal] - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• what a hoot!; joke of the century!; one's navel boils water [literal] - idiom ➜ へそで茶を沸かす【へそでちゃをわかす】

noun:

• proper diet and Chinese herbal medicine share the same principles - four character idiom ➜ 医食同源

noun:

• steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about - four character idiom

noun:

• imitation that looks identical to the original; fake causing the original to lose value - four character idiom

expression:

• doing something on one's own without another's help - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• the strong overwhelming the weak; completing various things without difficulty; Mt. Tai crushes an egg [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• not getting along well with each other; being like water and oil - four character idiom