expression / noun:

• one's devoted wife; wife who has followed one through hard times; wife married in poverty

expression / ~の noun:

• can be dispensed with; be better without; useless ➜ なくてもよい

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name ➜ 名にし負う【なにしおう】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name - emphatic form of 名に負う ➜ 名に負う【なにおう】

expression / adverb:

• before long; in a few days ➜ 日ならず

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持す

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• devote oneself to
• to do as one pleases; to act selfishly

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to lose a seat (in an election)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to unseat someone (in an election); to defeat a sitting member

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come to power; to assume the reins of government

expression / noun:

• vote by the Diet to appoint the prime minister

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pour (of rain); to pound down - sometimes incorrectly used to mean "to fall quietly"

expression:

• red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, shepherds delight; red sky in morning, shepherds take warning - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask for trouble; to dig your own grave; to cut your own throat

expression / ichidan verb:

• to drag things out; to creep up slowly on the point; to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope) [literal]

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold the key - often after ~の with the meaning 'to hold the key to ~'

expression:

• a man is still a man even if his hair is tied with straw; a man is still a man even if he's poor

expression:

• having no relation with whatsoever; having nothing to do with; alien

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a move; to move a piece (e.g. in shogi)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

expression:

• precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 壁立・千仞

expression / ichidan verb:

• to relate to; to have one's feelings understood ➜ 心が通う

expression / noun:

• keepsake; memorabilia; memento

expression / ichidan verb:

• to turn over a new leaf; to mend one's ways; to reform