noun:

• being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave - four character idiom

expression:

• study hard while you are young; boys grow old easily but getting learned is harder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• double hat-trick - derogatory term

adjectival noun:

• woman who has a good body but an unattractive face

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but; just about; almost

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type - colloquialism ➜ つんつん・でれでれ

noun:

• low entrance (usually, but not always, to a teahouse) with a tiled archway overhead

noun:

• pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan - Law term ➜ 外国会社

noun:

• a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate - four character idiom

expression:

• not exactly correct, but pretty close to it; not far off the mark

expression / ichidan verb:

• can be; can exist; can stay ➜ 居る【いる】・居る【いる】
• cannot help but ... - after a verb in negative form as 〜ずにはいられない、〜ないではいられない, etc.

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming in a field [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• mercury sulfide (esp. mercuric sulfide, HgS, but also mercurous sulfide, Hg2S) (sulphide)

noun:

• cold political relations but hot economical relations (often said about China-Japan relations)

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

~よい adjective:

• geek cool; nerd cool; cool but uncool - slang ➜ カッコイイ・ダサい

expression:

• the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the apple never falls far from the tree; fox pups have white cheeks [literal] - proverb - obscure term

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• foil; someone to look as if he's putting up a fight but actually have no chance of winning

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 大禍時

expression:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting the beginning

noun:

• trying out a new sword or blade (originally on someone, but now on soaked straw targets)

expression:

• to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)