ichidan verb / transitive:

• to withdraw a request

expression / ~の noun:

• under the ... administration; within the ... government - often 政権下で

noun:

• laxative; purgative; evacuant

noun / ~する noun:

• loose bowels; diarrhea; diarrhoea

noun:

• kitchen maid

noun:

• downstream transmission speed

noun:

• two-story basement (as in department stores)

expression / adjective:

• soft on women; weak for women; easily charmed (by women) - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to climb down; to crawl down

expression:

• poor speakers make long speeches; brevity is the soul of wit - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• land subsidence - four character idiom
• decline in influence

noun / ~する noun:

• dismounting - polite language

ichidan verb:

• to become vulgar; to coarsen

noun:

• London Underground mosquito (Culex pipiens f. molestus)

noun:

• Obediently yours

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do oneself; to do by oneself
• to start work (on); to commence ➜ 手をつける

noun:

• short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period; brief championship - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• airdrop; air drop

noun / ~する noun:

• disembarkation; getting off a ship; going ashore ➜ 乗船

noun:

• rough translation

noun:

• polish; elaboration; repeatedly working over one's writing; being very scrupulous in the choice of diction - four character idiom

noun:

• bottom of the sleeve - archaism
• height of the sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• secret; secret bribe ➜ 袖の下

noun:

• underclothes

noun:

• invested capital

expression:

• if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well

expression:

• hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool); an afterwit is everybody's wit - proverb