expression:

• much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)

expression / noun:

• beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn - idiom

expression:

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

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

adjectival noun / noun:

• tragic but brave; heroic; grim; pathetic

adjectival noun / noun:

• stout-hearted; firm; courageous; brave; tough

noun:

• ferocious leopard-like beast; brave warrior

adjective:

• manly; brave; heroic

noun:

• valiant; brave; surge (of water)

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

~と adverb:

• quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be as plain as daylight; to be as clear as day

expression:

• very early in the morning; so early in the morning; at this ungodly hour

noun:

• one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power; one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government - four character idiom

noun:

• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk) ➜ 茶筅

adjectival noun / noun:

• negligent; careless; slipshod; slovenly; reckless; irresponsible; offhand

adjectival noun:

• common; commonplace ➜ ざらにある・ざらにいる
• reckless

noun:

• pulp paper - abbreviation ➜ ざら紙
• granulated sugar - abbreviation ➜ ざらめ糖
• coins; small change - archaism

noun:

• bull's-eye
• object of desire; most-coveted goal
• male crotch (as a target in fighting); the jewels (as in "kick him in ...") - colloquialism

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

suffix noun:

• not having; unaffected by

conjunction:

• aside; I don't know about ... - often as ～は知らず
• I know not whether; I know not if - at the beginning of a sentence - archaism

noun:

• game in which the object is to topple the opposing team's pole

noun / ~する noun / expression:

• asking for the moon; asking for too much; asking for the impossible

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• feeling refreshed; feeling relieved - onomatopoeia
• neat; tidy; clean

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• frank; open-hearted; plain; simple; light

adverb / ~と adverb:

• completely; entirely

adverb:

• not in the least (with neg. verb); not at all

adjectival noun:

• nothing at all; completely useless; hopeless; awful

expression / noun:

• a man among the geese when the gander is away; a one-eyed king in the land of the blind; a bat in a village without birds [literal] - idiom