expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw ➜ 目と鼻の先【めとはなのさき】

noun:

• being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to depend on somebody else's (financial) support (usu. one's parents') ➜ 親のすねをかじる

expression:

• one never knows (what will happen); there's no telling (what the future holds)

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• pleasantly (warm) - onomatopoeia
• faintly; lightly - onomatopoeia
• suddenly; unexpectedly - onomatopoeia
• accidentally; carelessly - onomatopoeia
• gaping wide; opening one's mouth wide - onomatopoeia

noun:

• offense and defense; offence and defence; batting and fielding

noun / ~の noun:

• public and private; official and personal; government and people

noun:

• praise and censure; approval and disapproval; approbation and condemnation

noun:

• right and wrong; loyalty and treason; obedience and disobedience

noun / adjectival noun:

• peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• quick and decisive; fast and daring; swift and resolute - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• bold and clever; daring and ingenious; audacious and masterly - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there; now and then; twos and threes; sparsely - onomatopoeia ➜ ちらほら

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sporadically; here and there; now and then; in twos and threes; sparsely - onomatopoeia

noun / ~の noun:

• well-known and unknown; somebodies and nobodies; both famous and humble - four character idiom

expression:

• diametric opposites; night and day; black and white; snow and ink [literal] - idiom

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to adorn; to decorate; to dress up; to build up

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to close up; to block up; to fill; to cover

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leading (the way); showing around
• information; notice; notification
• announcement (of one's arrival)
• invitation
• acquaintance; knowledge

noun:

• skin; hide; pelt; fur ➜ 革
• rind; peel; husk; bark
• shell; sheath; wrapping
• mask (hiding one's true nature); seeming ➜ 化けの皮【ばけのかわ】・欲の皮が突っ張る【よくのかわがつっぱる】