noun:

• big fuss over nothing; much cry and little wool; much ado about nothing - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• muddleheaded; knowing no better; not thinking about ➜ 頭が回る【あたまがまわる】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll over; to tumble; to roll about (with laughter)

adjective:

• feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about

noun:

• bulletin board; notice board; billboard; roadside sign; sign on a post, usu. wooden, esp. containing information about a sight, warning, congratulations, etc. ➜ 高札

noun:

• obsession; fixation; hangup; determination; fastidiousness; pickiness about (trait, style, etc.)
• complaining; criticizing
• speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

godan ~う verb:

• to ridicule; to tease; to mock; to chaff; to razz; to banter with; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make cracks about

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of ➜ こんな・そんな・どんな

noun:

• (about) middle; midway

noun / suffix noun:

• not asking (about); letting go unquestioned; disregarding; ignoring; overlooking ➜ 不問に付する【ふもんにふする】・不問に付す【ふもんにふす】

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun:

• surmise (about somebody's feelings); guess; conjecture

adverb:

• just when (one is about to ...); just as; the very moment when; on the point of

noun:

• shoulder pain (at about age forty)

adverb / ~する noun:

• going on and on (about inconsequential things); talking nonsense - onomatopoeia
• idling away the time; dawdling - onomatopoeia

noun:

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

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

expression:

• nothing one can say (e.g. about something perfect)

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it) - four character idiom

noun:

• Japan hand (someone very knowledgeable about Japan)

expression / noun:

• being kept in the dark (about); being excluded; being kept out of the loop; outside the mosquito net [literal] - idiom

noun:

• mid-sized konoshiro gizzard shad (i.e. about 15 cm in size) ➜ 鮗

adjective:

• unjustly suspicious (about many things)

expression / noun:

• anxiety (about the future)