expression:

• inflexible people; heartless people; Buddhist images of wood, metal, and stone [literal]

noun:

• fight to the finish; desperate struggle; life-and-death struggle - From English "death match"

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• having presence of mind; self-possessed; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed - four character idiom

noun:

• dumbfounding performance; queer act; performance so bad it's spellbinding - pun on 名演 - humorous term

noun:

• small fry; ordinary soldiers; rank and file

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

noun:

• naan; nan; flatbread in Central and South Asian cuisine - From Hindi

noun / ~の noun:

• snobbery; snobbishness; philistinism; vulgar and ostentatious nature (disposition) - four character idiom

noun:

• scanlation; scanslation; scanning, translation and editing of comics without permission

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• single-mindedly; wholeheartedly; with one's heart and soul - four character idiom

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

adverbial noun:

• single-mindedly; wholeheartedly; with one's heart and soul - four character idiom

expression:

• once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake) [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

expression:

• currying favour (favor); brown-nosing; bootlicking; sucking pus from carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids (haemorrhoids) [literal]

expression:

• to wait for a good opportunity; to come down on the right side of the fence; to see which way the cat jumps; to wait and see at Horagatoge [literal] - proverb

noun:

• summary site; aggregator; type of site which features summaries of online discussion threads and blogs ➜ まとめる

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

noun:

• provincial city; provincial town; suburban city; regional towns and cities

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• triumphant; exultant; in high and proud spirits ➜ 意気揚々

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing clearly; seeing without obstruction; looking into every nook and corner

noun:

• sanity; soundness of mind; prudence and discretion - sometimes written as 他愛 ➜ たわいない
• drunkenness - archaism

expression:

• I got it; I see; I now know; So that's the reason

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

expression / noun:

• true love; deep love; love for someone so deep that it can reach a crow perched on that person's roof