expression / adjective:

• remaining firm; sticking by one's principles; not budging an inch

noun:

• duty of confidentiality (concerning private matters learned through one's business) - four character idiom

noun:

• saliva held in one's mouth during times of tension ➜ 固唾をのむ【かたずをのむ】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs - four character idiom

noun:

• acting according to one's own beliefs, being undisturbed by others - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's dress (e.g. at the wedding reception)

expression:

• Freedom from one's desires (Entry into Nirvana) is true bliss - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• moral (spiritual) improvement; practice mental training; cultivate one's mind (soul) - four character idiom

noun:

• having part of one's underwear exposed from their shorts - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• Ajase complex (feelings of guilt towards one's mother)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed) - obscure term ➜ 床を上げる

expression:

• out of one's league; facing a too tough opponent; outclassed - colloquialism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to raise (usu. one's shoulders, with a jaunty, swaggering effect)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fall on one's shoulders (e.g. responsibility, duty)

noun / ~する noun:

• tucking up the hem of one's garments ➜ 尻からげ

noun:

• hairstyle; shape of one's head
• fish served whole ［かしらつき］ ➜ 尾頭付き【おかしらつき】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term

noun:

• tree swayed by the wind ➜ 風木
• thinking about one's deceased parents - archaism ➜ 風樹の嘆

noun:

• U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers ➜ 握り鋏

noun:

• eating one's bento before lunchtime (e.g. of a student)

expression / noun:

• useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand - idiom

expression / adjective:

• inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive

expression / adjective:

• inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive