expression / ichidan verb:

• to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• flake; lamella (of bone); foil (of metal); flat, thin slice of a material

noun:

• (personal) guarantor; (personal) surety; person providing a character reference

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun / ~する noun:

• telling others; revealing to others; letting out a secret

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

expression / adverb:

• hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope

expression / adjective:

• in good shape; strongly built; in good health; having a strong constitution

expression:

• intermittently; at intervals (of); after a pause

adverb:

• in an angry mood; in anger; angrily; in a huff

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• enjoying great popularity; receiving widespread high praise; being a great success with the public - four character idiom

expression:

• waking or sleeping; constantly; at all times; twenty-four hours a day

noun / ~する noun:

• experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation

expression / adjective:

• of no concern; nothing; trivial; not even a fart [literal] - idiom

adverb:

• punctually; on time; as regularly as a clock

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun:

• conjunctive form; continuative form; -masu stem of a Japanese verb - Linguistics term

noun:

• way of murdering; killing method; way of using a sword

noun:

• immaculate conception; virgin birth; tradition that Jesus was born to Mary although she was a virgin ➜ 処女受胎【しょじょじゅたい】

noun / ~する noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; linking little fingers to confirm a promise ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming in a field [literal] - idiom - humorous term