noun:

• inside work; catcher's game

noun / ~する noun:

• paying attention to; catching one's eye

noun:

• washhouse; place for cleaning one's laundry

noun:

• development of the body; caring for one's body

noun / ~する noun:

• career enhancement; improving one's career prospects - From English "career up"

noun:

• repenting; improving one's nature - usu. 〜もなく ➜ 性懲りもなく【しょうこりもなく】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have guts; to be unwavering in one's resolution

noun:

• the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 易行道

noun:

• divine grace; God's help - four character idiom

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to distract oneself; to take one's mind off one's worries

noun:

• bonus; reward for one's services

noun:

• bill; one's account

noun:

• Venus flytrap; Venus's flytrap ➜ 蝿取り草

noun:

• letter explaining the reasons for cutting down an alleged villain; assassin's written vindication of his killing

noun:

• complete change of mood; thoroughly refreshing one's spirits - four character idiom

noun:

• self-flattery; sing one's own praises - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sleep together (for a man and a woman); to bring one's bodies together (e.g. for warmth)

noun / ~する noun:

• ceasing to write; putting down one's pen

noun:

• bullish market; bull market

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

noun:

• footbath; hot spring bath designed for soaking one's feet

expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• first lull of the year; lull on New Year's Day