expression:

• the mediocre have no right to criticize the great - sensitive - proverb

expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal] - idiom ➜ 身を粉にする【みをこにする】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal]

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)
• to dry the bottom of a ship (to prevent insect damage)

nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to get; to acquire; to obtain; to procure; to earn; to win; to gain; to secure; to attain ➜ 得る【うる】
• to be possible - as 〜することを得, etc.

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• being held in suspense; being on edge; scared stiff; one's testicles going up and down [literal] - idiom - male language ➜ 上がったり下がったり【あがったりさがったり】

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting in half
• painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper - esp. 半折

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to invade; to raid; to violate (airspace, etc.); to intrude; to trespass
• to infringe; to encroach
• to harm; to afflict; to affect ➜ 冒す【おかす】

noun:

• nasal plug
• wedge (in tusk mortise-and-tenon joint); wooden pin driven through tenon to hold it in place - Architecture term

noun:

• tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to allot; to allocate
• to supply with; to furnish
• to fit to; to fasten to; to apply to

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

expression / ichidan verb:

• to demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done ➜ 恩に掛ける

expression / ichidan verb:

• to demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done ➜ 恩に着せる

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick it out; to see it to the end

godan ~む verb:

• to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be brief and to the point; to be succinct

expression / ichidan verb:

• to balance the accounts
• to make consistent; to make coherent

noun:

• voice dramatization on CD (usu. based on manga, anime, etc.) - From English "drama CD"

adverbial noun / noun:

• weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday)

noun:

• kanji radical 73 ［ひらび］

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun:

• the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election; children of (Junichiro) Koizumi [literal] - colloquialism ➜ ８３会【はちさんかい】