noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

noun:

• getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• incorrigibly; doggedly; in spite of one's negative experiences ➜ 性懲りもない【しょうこりもない】

noun:

• fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow timid; to cower; to shrink; to lose one's nerve
• to become perverse; to become contrary; to become warped; to become withdrawn
• to be cramped; to be constrained

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

adverb / ~の noun:

• as always; as ever; though it's always the case

noun:

• place to go; person to turn to or depend on; one's resort

noun:

• galley proofs; proof sheet; printer's proof

expression / noun:

• life story; personal narrative; story of one's life

expression:

• intrusive person; being intrusive; a tinker's shoulder pole [literal] - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• deep gratitude; heartfelt appreciation; not forgetting to express one's gratitude

noun:

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

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to set somebody to work in an arrogant fashion; to push somebody around; to indicate by pointing one's chin [literal] ➜ 頤で人を使う【あごでひとをつかう】
• to chatter; to jaw; to jabber - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

godan ~く verb:

• to get encouraged; to become heightened in spirits; to recover one's strength

adverb / noun / adjectival noun:

• as one wishes; as one pleases; to one's heart's content

expression / adverb:

• openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be drawn to; to feel the call of ...; to have one's heart-strings pulled

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

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

adverbial noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• daredevil; reckless; thinking nothing of one's death - four character idiom

noun:

• impractical desktop theory (proposition); unworkable idea; an idea that isn't worth the paper it's written on - four character idiom

expression:

• it is better to; it is best to; there's nothing better than

noun:

• agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells - four character idiom