noun:

• golf-like game using mallets instead of clubs - From English "mallet golf"

expression:

• crestfallen; dejected; shriveled (like a slug sprinkled with salt) - idiom

noun:

• young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• not getting along well with each other; being like water and oil - four character idiom

expression:

• being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish

noun:

• hazy curtain of flowers; cherry blossoms appearing from afar like white mist

expression:

• It's audible but invisible; I hear voices but I can't see anybody - idiom

noun:

• forcing people who can't drink alcohol to drink alcohol - From English "alcohol harassment"

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

expression:

• victory depends on the luck of the day (i.e. it isn't always the strongest who wins)

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

noun:

• wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land
• The Wasteland (poem by T.S. Eliot)

expression:

• don't worry about it; forget about it

noun:

• being kept uninformed; being cut off; out of the loop - sensitive
• upper gallery (where one can't hear); blind seat - archaism

expression / noun:

• tempting thing; (too much of a) temptation; something that shouldn't be seen; the last thing one needs to see

expression:

• once a fool, always a fool; stupidity won't be cured without death [literal] - proverb

noun:

• K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period)

expression:

• not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work

adverb:

• like that (used for something or someone distant from both speaker and listener); so ➜ 斯う・然う・如何【どう】

noun:

• like-mindedness; (being of the) same mind; shared sentiment
• comrade; fellow; kindred soul ➜ 同士【どうし】

noun:

• parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot - oft. adv. as おうむ返しに

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)

noun:

• crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu

noun:

• caddisfly; caddis fly (any moth-like insect of the order Trichoptera)