noun:

• hypocrite; dissembler; wolf in sheep's clothing; fox in a lamb's skin

noun:

• getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door ➜ 指を詰める
• yakuza finger-cutting ritual

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

noun:

• man's appearance; man's behaviour; someone disguised as a man

noun:

• magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave

noun / ~する noun:

• being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

noun:

• plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to think (something) is improper; to question; to have a problem with

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to put heads together; to gather (for discussion); to go into a huddle ➜ 額を集める【ひたいをあつめる】

noun:

• gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election ➜ 特別国会

noun / ~する noun:

• document screening; paper screening; narrowing down a field of applicants based on resumes, written applications, etc.

adverb:

• imposingly; heavily; conspicuously; in a dignified manner

adverb:

• without fail; diligently; without missing a single ... ➜ 欠かす【かかす】

adverb:

• thinly; slightly; vaguely; a little

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

noun:

• woman's appearance; woman's behaviour; someone dressed as a woman ➜ 男姿

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to establish oneself in life; to achieve success; to reach a high position
• to begin life (as an adult); to step out into the world

noun:

• namesake program; namesake show; TV or radio program named after the main performer or a sponsor

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom

expression / adjective:

• not be concerned about at all; not mind about at all; not care a bit ➜ 気になる