expression / adjective:

• too much for one to handle; beyond one's capacity; unmanageable; uncontrollable; incorrigible; obstreperous

noun:

• cramped home; one's humble abode; hovel; pigsty; cottage; squalid hut

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to have the means to buy - idiom
• to be near (a certain age) - idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれない

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれぬ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be forward; to stick one's nose into; to meddle; to be intrusive
• to jut out; to protude; to overhang

expression / adjective:

• it can't be helped; it's inevitable; it's no use; can't stand it; being impatient; being annoyed ➜ 仕方がない

noun:

• giant crape-myrtle (Lagerstroemia speciosa); Queen's crape-myrtle; banabá; Pride of India

noun:

• pigtails; two plaits hanging about one's shoulders; two plaits hanging down one's back; queue

expression:

• head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet

noun:

• imperfect (Buddhist) training; imperfection in one's (Buddhist) training; incomplete training; poor training - Buddhism term

pronoun:

• I; me - used by Buddhist monks - humble language

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

noun:

• boring pun; old person's joke; dad joke; worn-out joke - colloquialism - derogatory term ➜ 駄洒落

ichidan verb:

• to find fault with; to rain on one's parade; to nitpick; to quibble ➜ ケチを付ける

expression:

• you've hit the nail on the head; that's just what I thought; that's exactly like I feel; that's exactly what I think, too

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

expression:

• Don't be absurd; That's out of the question; Nonsense; Don't mention it

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to weaken (of willpower, solidarity, etc.); to lose one's edge; to become less tense; to become lax (of discipline, rules, etc.)

noun:

• carving knife; butcher's knife; cleaver; meat chopper - abbreviation ➜ 肉切り包丁

expression / ichidan verb:

• to find fault with; to rain on one's parade; to nitpick; to quibble