noun:

• furikake put on rice to make it blue, which is said to act as an appetite suppressant - colloquialism ➜ ふりかけ

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment - Kansai dialect

expression:

• a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - proverb

expression / interjection:

• indeed, it is so; I concur, it is so - archaism

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; other people's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) ➜ 式年祭

noun:

• second part (of three); second volume; middle part ➜ 前編・上編
• novelette; novella; short novel; long short story; medium-length story - abbreviation ➜ 中編小説【ちゅうへんしょうせつ】・短編・長編

expression:

• Unpreparedness is one's greatest enemy; He that is too secure is not safe - four character idiom

noun:

• season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring)
• first ten days of the fourth lunar month ➜ 卯月

expression:

• having been told something so often that one is fed up with it - abbreviation - idiom - colloquialism ➜ 耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】

expression:

• two is a company, three is a crowd; one companion is better than two - proverb

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

expression / adjective:

• there is no need to ...
• never happens; there is never a time when

expression:

• the customer is always right; the customer is king

expression:

• there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; squeezing your buttocks after you have farted [literal] - proverb

expression:

• there is no rule without exceptions - proverb

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to look as if one is important; to swagger around

expression:

• when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked [literal]

noun:

• delivery service where package is left in front of door or in designated area; safe drop

noun:

• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk) ➜ 茶筅

noun:

• (French) Second Republic

noun:

• Second Epistle of Peter (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

expression:

• as far as ... is concerned; so far as ... can tell ➜ 関する