noun / ~する noun:

• pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious; being happily married - four character idiom ➜ 琴瑟相和す

noun / ~する noun:

• employment of workers through (personal) connections; getting a job through one's personal connection - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be put at a disadvantage; to get the short end of the stick

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

noun:

• proper map; map such that the inverse image of a compact set is compact - Mathematics term

noun:

• strategy guide (book, e.g. for a video game); playing guide; book of hints

noun:

• pope's nose; parson's nose; meat from around the coccyx of a chicken

expression:

• figuratively speaking; metaphorically speaking; so to speak; to use a figure of speech

noun / ~の noun:

• koma shape; five-sided shape in the form of a koma (shogi game piece) ➜ 駒【こま】

noun:

• shaking; shake; jolt; jolting; vibration; tremor; flickering
• unsettledness; instability; vacillating; wavering
• existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word - Linguistics term

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

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

expression:

• It's good to have a girl first and then a boy

noun:

• jigo; go game resulting in a tie or a draw

noun:

• capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enclose (a word, letter, symbol, etc.) with a circle

noun:

• peeler (for peeling a label from its base in a barcode printer)

noun:

• short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole ➜ うだつが上がらない

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes come up with a good idea - four character idiom

noun:

• taking a relaxed holiday in a rural area - From English "green tourism"

noun:

• in calligraphy, a brush movement where a horizontal line turns sharply downwards

expression / noun:

• Cleopatra's nose; "a small thing with a huge influence" [figurative]

expression:

• a little learning is a dangerous thing - proverb

noun:

• imminent danger; like a carp stuck in a puddle on the road [literal]