expression:

• 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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master
• to order (one's life)
• to repair (a fault one has committed)

lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master - archaism
• to order (one's life) - archaism
• to repair (a fault one has committed) - archaism

expression:

• it is difficult to say which of the two is better

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb

expression:

• like the young man who tried to walk like the Kantan people, gave up, and forgot how to walk

noun:

• (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity - four character idiom

noun:

• (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• hu (ancient Chinese vessel shaped like a vase, usually used to store alcohol)

noun:

• flashlight-like lantern with a freely rotating candle that only directs light forward

noun:

• practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer - From English "bottle keep"

noun:

• friend of a mother who is also a mother; mothers who are friends

noun / ~する noun:

• girl's throw; throwing like a girl

expression:

• a sound mind is in a sound body; mens sana in corpore sano - proverb

expression:

• like looking out on an abyss; like standing on the edge of an abyss

adjectival noun:

• human; human-like; as a person

noun / ~する noun:

• drinking hard; drinking like a fish

noun:

• tiger pattern; striped (like a tiger)

godan ~る verb:

• to (try to) act like a big-shot

adverb:

• soundly (of sleeping); (sleeping) like a log - onomatopoeia

noun:

• double tooth; protruding tooth (like a fang) - obscure term ➜ 八重歯【やえば】

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout
• snorting like a pig (while laughing)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名