adjectival noun:

• so; like that

interjection:

• that's right; indeed
• let me see...

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to close up like an oyster; to retire into one's shell - obscure term

noun:

• a large number of ships sailing in a long chain-like formation - four character idiom

noun:

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

noun:

• rasbora (small minnow-like fish of genera Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora, and Trigonostigma)

noun:

• perfect woman; woman other women aspire to be like - female language - manga slang

expression:

• the poor can't afford manners; only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite - proverb

expression:

• Don't worry about it; There is nothing to fear; There is no need for anxiety; Everything is under control - four character idiom

expression:

• it is certain true that ... (but); you can't argue that it's not ... (but)

expression:

• an army marches on its stomach; you can't fight on an empty stomach [literal] - proverb

noun:

• thick illustrated publication on a single topic printed to look like a magazine - from "magazine" and "book" - From English "mook"

particle:

• a sort of thing like; used after a phrase to modify the following noun

noun:

• quasi-negation (e.g. use of words like 'hardly', 'seldom', 'barely'); weak negation - obscure term - Linguistics term

noun:

• senior group member; leader among peers

expression:

• (like) one's older brother; big brother ➜ 分【ぶん】

noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners ➜ への字に結んだ口

expression / noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners

expression / adjective:

• it is not (like that); used to explicitly deny one thing while also implicitly denying other things

noun:

• yaki-fu; wheat gluten leavened with baking powder and baked into long bread-like sticks - Food term ➜ 麸【ふ】

expression:

• it's hard to please everybody; damned if you do and damned if you don't - proverb

expression:

• while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive) ➜ 目の黒いうち【めのくろいうち】

expression:

• Don't worry about it; There is nothing to fear; There is no need for anxiety; Everything is under control

noun:

• alveolar consonant; sound (e.g. n,t,d) where the tongue touches (or nearly touches) the ridge behind your front top teeth ➜ 歯茎

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; horses work best together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb ➜ 牛は牛連れ馬は馬連れ

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; seeing is believing; to have heard of is not to have seen - proverb

noun:

• full of vigor and vitality (like the rising sun) (vigour); being in the ascendant - four character idiom