expression / noun:

• good for nothing (of large people); big but useless - idiom

expression:

• it is needless to say - archaism

expression:

• matter is void; all is vanity - four character idiom

expression:

• being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom

expression:

• concerning; per; on account of

expression:

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

expression:

• red lips and pearly white teeth (said of beautiful women) - four character idiom

expression:

• How could I (you, etc.) ...?; How dare you (they, etc.) (have the nerve to) ...?

expression:

• money comes and goes; money goes around and around - proverb

expression:

• it can't be helped; so it goes; c'est la vie - Kansai dialect ➜ 仕方がない

expression:

• shape up!; act properly! - female language - Ōsaka dialect ➜ いい加減にしなさい

expression:

• what's the matter? - Ōsaka dialect ➜ どうしたの

expression:

• That's not true! - Ōsaka dialect ➜ ちゃう

noun:

• chow chow (dog) ［チャウチャウ］

expression / adjective:

• versatile ➜ 用途の広い

expression:

• inscrutable and interesting are the ways people are brought together ➜ 縁は異なもの

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways people are brought together; there is no telling how people are brought together ➜ 縁は異なもの味なもの

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to stitch up a wound

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to gasp in surprise

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make eye contact

expression:

• I wonder about that; don't bet on it; famous last words

expression:

• how about ...?
• I wonder; I don't know

expression:

• the very image of health itself; picture of health

expression / adverb:

• for the first time in one's life

expression:

• cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do ➜ せざるを得ない

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to put on an air of seniority ➜ 先輩風を吹かす