noun:

• side entrance; tradesman's entrance; service entrance; staff entrance

expression / adjective:

• not mince matters; not mince one's words

noun:

• all one has; all one's possessions

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to hurt someone's feelings; to offend someone

expression:

• Why?; Why not?; What for?; What's wrong?

~の noun / temporal noun:

• before one's birth; before one was born

noun:

• associate (of arts); associate's degree (in arts)

noun:

• Ryukyu shrew (Crocidura orii); Orii's shrew

noun:

• People's Honour Award (honor); National Honour Award

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun:

• stretching a rope around; roping off; cordoning off; demarcation
• one's turf; domain; territory; jurisdiction; sphere of influence

noun:

• policeman; official in charge of imprisoning offenders - archaism
• art of defeating (and capturing) an opponent with one's bare hands - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis)
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun / ~する noun:

• striding; swaggering; strutting
• lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• Gresham's Law ("when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives good money out of circulation") ➜ 悪貨は良貨を駆逐する

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation) - colloquialism ➜ こちらの話
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

expression:

• if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• building where one keeps oxcarts and other conveyances inside a private estate
• resting area for one's oxcart, wagon, etc.

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)