expression:

• better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know - proverb ➜ 聞くは一時の恥聞かぬは一生の恥

expression:

• no news is good news - proverb

expression / adjectival noun:

• to be as busy as a bee; like Christmas and a birthday feast rolled into one - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be filled with thousand emotions; to be overwhelmed by a flood of emotions; to be wrought by a thousand emotions

expression:

• where might is master, justice is servant - proverb

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

expression:

• names and natures do often agree - proverb

expression:

• to live long is to outlive much; the longer you live, the more shame you suffer - proverb

expression:

• without life, there is nothing; don't waste your life - proverb

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

expression:

• a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - proverb

expression:

• tomorrow will take care of itself; let the morn come and the meat with it; tomorrow, the winds of tomorrow will blow [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 芽が出る【めがでる】
• to have one's eyes bulge out of one's head (with surprise) ➜ 目の玉が飛び出る

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind [literal] - proverb - sensitive

expression:

• better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know - proverb

expression:

• prevention is better than cure - proverb

expression / adjectival noun:

• (having) special circumstances (e.g. problems, issues, advantages, flaws, defects, etc.)

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb

expression:

• speech is silver, silence is golden - proverb

expression:

• red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning - proverb

expression:

• the word impossible is not in my dictionary - quote

expression:

• don't despair because you're the last to take your pick; you can find treasures in leftovers; one man's trash is another's treasure - proverb

expression:

• It serves you right - idiom

expression:

• you can never be too careful - proverb