expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to collapse
• to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent; to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make oneself pleasant to everybody; to smile at everybody; to try to please everybody; to make things pleasant - common error is 愛想を振りまく

noun:

• soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

expression:

• victory depends on the luck of the day (i.e. it isn't always the strongest who wins)

expression:

• empty vessels make the most noise; the silent firefly burns with more passion than the crying cicada [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend
• to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make somebody drink
• to serve alcohol; to treat somebody to drinks

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be drinkable (esp. of alcohol)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be full ➜ 満ちる
• to wax (e.g. moon)
• to rise (e.g. tide)
• to mature; to expire

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be coming - abbr. of 来ている ➜ 来る【くる】
• to be popular; to be fashionable - slang
• to be angry; to have blown one's lid - slang ➜ 頭に来る

noun:

• (in the shape of a) mouth
• mouthpiece (of a cigarette)
• manner of speech

conjunction:

• and then; besides; on top of that
• in that case; that being the case; if so

noun:

• blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

expression:

• fools rush in - abbreviation ➜ 盲蛇に怖じず

adverb:

• with a clunk; with a clank - onomatopoeia
• the sound of a sudden decrease (in profits, vigor, etc.)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own - often in neg.

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air)

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air) ➜ キノボリウオ亜目【キノボリウオあもく】

expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• sneeze

expression:

• spoken twice in response to someone sneezing as a charm against an early death ［くさめ］ - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• concentration; diligence; devotion
• asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment ➜ 六波羅蜜
• adherence to a vegetarian diet

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick
• vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim