noun:

• waste of money ➜ 安物買いの銭失い【やすものがいのぜにうしない】

noun:

• rudely reaching over one's serving tray to grab food behind it with one's chopsticks

noun:

• diatonic scale - Music term

noun:

• tongue depressor

expression:

• All-Japan

noun:

• absolute monarch

noun / adjectival noun:

• promising (rosy, bright) future; offering promising prospects - four character idiom

noun:

• the whole family; the whole house

expression:

• unavoidable; inevitable; cannot be helped; of necessity

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• giving careful thought to the future; finishing up carefully

noun:

• total loss

noun:

• bamboo divination stick

noun:

• Zen terminology; Zen words

noun:

• tax planning; tax reduction strategy

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• prepayment; advance payment

noun:

• root of the tongue

noun:

• ambassador plenipotentiary

noun:

• cancer of the tongue

noun:

• tax system

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut of the preceding cart [literal] ➜ 轍を踏む

noun / ~の noun:

• clockwork (motor, etc.); spring action

noun:

• till; purse; handbag

noun:

• the avant-garde

noun:

• lower secondary education (e.g. middle school)

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food