expression / noun:

• third time lucky; third time's the charm - proverb

noun:

• side entrance; tradesman's entrance; service entrance; staff entrance

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to hurt someone's feelings; to offend someone

expression:

• Why?; Why not?; What for?; What's wrong?

noun:

• associate (of arts); associate's degree (in arts)

noun:

• Ryukyu shrew (Crocidura orii); Orii's shrew

noun:

• People's Honour Award (honor); National Honour Award

expression:

• persevering through something difficult makes one stronger; whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger; slow but steady wins the race - proverb

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun:

• Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis)
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

noun:

• Gresham's Law ("when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives good money out of circulation") ➜ 悪貨は良貨を駆逐する

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation) - colloquialism ➜ こちらの話
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

expression:

• if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun:

• decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts ➜ お年玉【おとしだま】

noun:

• children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句・重陽【ちょうよう】

noun:

• backing paper; backing sheet
• paper printed or used on one side; reverse side of such paper

expression:

• two is a company, three is a crowd; one companion is better than two - proverb

noun:

• place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑