noun:

• well-cured sake; last year's sake; old sake

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

noun:

• you are what you eat; slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health; indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land) [literal]

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

expression:

• pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand ➜ 見て見ぬ振り

noun:

• Asperger syndrome; Asperger's syndrome; Asperger's

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to devote oneself wholeheartedly to; to sacrifice one's health for; to risk one's life

noun:

• iron pyrites; fool's gold; pyrite

noun / ~する noun:

• taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を破る

noun:

• telescope (variety of goldfish); telescope eye; demekin

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered; to lose one's self-control

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

noun:

• Holy Communion; Lord's Supper; Eucharist

noun:

• communicativity; ability to convey one's opinion, message, etc.; power to make oneself understood

temporal noun:

• lifetime; one's whole life; all through life

noun:

• lungs; bottom of one's heart; vital point

adverb:

• secretly; behind someone's back; unbeknownst to the parties involved

noun:

• olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni); Hodgson's tree pipit; Indian tree pipit

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb

noun:

• inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches - four character idiom

expression:

• Oh yeah; Of course it is so; Cheer up, that's average; It happens; It's possible; Don't worry, it happens

noun:

• dancing figure; one's appearance when dancing; dancing posture

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom