noun:

• double tooth; protruding tooth (like a fang); high canine

noun:

• piggybacking marketing; the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

expression / noun:

• being in a helpless situation; (like a) fish on a chopping board [literal] - idiom

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to become erect (penis, nipple, etc.); to tower (like an erection) - pun on そそり立つ ➜ そそり立つ【そそりたつ】

noun:

• black speckles; small black spots (like sprinkled sesame)

adverb:

• thuddingly; plumping down (like a heavy weight) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

noun:

• tiger pattern; striped (like a tiger)

noun:

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

expression:

• discouraged person; (like a) sheep being led to a slaughterhouse

expression:

• faith is mysterious; through faith, even something trivial (like a pilchard's head) seems valuable - proverb

noun:

• nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

expression / adjective:

• spending a day's revenue within the day; not being attached to money (like a true Tokyoite)

noun:

• double tooth; protruding tooth (like a fang) - obscure term ➜ 八重歯【やえば】

expression / noun:

• perverseness; obstinacy; something unreasonable (like pushing a cart from the side (instead of from behind)) ➜ 横車を押す

noun:

• side wheel throw (judo)

noun:

• nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)

interjection:

• beep; honk (car horn); buzz (buzzer); boo (wrong answer, like buzzer on quiz shows) - onomatopoeia

expression / ~と adverb:

• without making waves; softly; (like) a willow in the wind [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be stunned; to be surprised; one's eyes turn into dots (like a cartoon character) [literal]

expression:

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

noun:

• combover; comb-over; bamboo screen head (due to looking like the slats of a bamboo screen) [literal] ➜ すだれ・バーコードヘア

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end