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• Be careful not to invite the least suspicion; Leave no room for scandal - four character idiom

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• You must seize every golden opportunity; Strike while the iron is hot; When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price - four character idiom

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• A cornered rat will bite the cat; One who is cornered will fight like a devil - four character idiom

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

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• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

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• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

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• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

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• the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction - four character idiom

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• Even a fool may sometimes give good counsel - four character idiom

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• "Revere heaven, love people." (favorite motto of Saigo Takamori, 1827-1877) - four character idiom

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• Happy events are often accompanied by difficulties; Unsullied joy is rare - four character idiom

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• The young should be regarded with respect - four character idiom

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• It's absolute heaven; It's sheer bliss - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• the crucial moment; the moment of truth; do-or-die situation; crucial juncture; crucial stage

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• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

expression / ~の noun / noun:

• behind with everything; too late; reactive

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• Defeat is inevitable for one who goes second; Being slow to take action inevitably leads to defeat - four character idiom

expression:

• complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways - four character idiom

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• Talented people tend to be of delicate constitution; Men of genius tend to be of delicate health; Whom the gods love die young - four character idiom

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• The time has come (for, to, when...); Now is the time - four character idiom

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• At forty, one has no doubts. (Confucius) - four character idiom

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• The time has come (for, to, when...); The time being ripe (for) - four character idiom

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• Men seldom live to be seventy (Du Fu (c.712-c.770)); Few people live to be seventy - four character idiom

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

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• Wrong and right are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom