noun:

• all-night through

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment - Kansai dialect

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears

noun / ~の noun:

• all; every; various

noun:

• All Souls' Day

expression:

• Don't you ever come here again! - slang

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

expression:

• you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope - proverb

noun:

• all the domestic (housekeeping) chores - four character idiom

expression:

• Thank you; How nice of you; That's kind of you

expression / adverb:

• as hard as one can; with one's whole heart ➜ 捩じり鉢巻き

adverb:

• as much as one can; as much as possible ➜ なるたけ・できるだけ・なるべく

noun:

• words you can't say on TV or radio; taboo words banned from broadcasts ➜ 放送禁止用語

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely

noun:

• thank-you letter; letter of apology

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

expression:

• by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

adverb:

• not at all (neg. verb) ➜ ちっとも

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• all sorts or kinds of; motley - four character idiom

expression:

• the busier you are, the better you work - proverb
• the more, the better - proverb

noun:

• all; everyone; everybody - var. of みなさん - slang ➜ 皆さん【みなさん】

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

expression:

• the hardest thing of all

expression:

• when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked [literal]