expression:

• women are not as clever as they think; women should know their place; even a clever woman will fail at selling a cow [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• (person who is) once bitten twice shy; someone who has become overly cautious due to a bad experience - idiom - four character idiom

noun:

• in-house model; company model; model under an exclusive contract; model who works exclusively for a single fashion magazine

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

expression / adverb:

• at precisely this moment; at precisely that moment; just then; just when

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to handle a tool; to work a machine

expression / ichidan verb:

• to work toward a solution to a problem

expression:

• smooth words make smooth ways; it's not what you say, it's how you say it - proverb

noun:

• playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who will carry out a task ➜ じゃんけん

expression:

• starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught - proverb ➜ 泥縄【どろなわ】・泥縄式【どろなわしき】

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

expression:

• a little while later; for a little while; some time later; for some time; presently

adverb:

• it seems like; it appears that
• somehow or other

expression:

• it seems so; that's what it looks like - colloquialism

expression:

• it's probably so; it stands to reason

expression:

• it's probably so; it stands to reason ➜ さもありなん

particle:

• might it be... No, I guess it's not - at sentence end; indicates irony and admiration - archaism

expression:

• to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown - idiom

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

expression / noun:

• a matter of time; matter of hours; question of time

noun:

• subject (of a portrait or bust); a person posing for a portrait or bust - obscure term
• (historically) patron; someone who commissions a Buddhist temple or work of art

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to work out; to think up; to devise; to come up with
• to manage to find (money, time, etc.); to scrape together (funds)

noun / ~する noun:

• service; ministry; attendance; church work
• offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free

adverb:

• bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire) - onomatopoeia
• doing something at a mad pace (spend money, work)