noun:

• friendly shower; welcome rain; rain that comes after a drought ➜ 慈雨

expression:

• intrusive person; being intrusive; a tinker's shoulder pole [literal] - obscure term

noun:

• proper time (e.g. for harvesting rice); appropriate time; right time

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the battle line; come back to the game (on to the field); a comeback - four character idiom

noun:

• welcome rain; merciful rain; blessed rain; rain after a long dry period

expression / adverb:

• openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face

noun:

• gambler; yakuza; person without a legitimate job

expression:

• having one's good intentions backfire dangerously; causing harm when trying to prevent it; trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling [literal] - idiom

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

noun:

• laborious work; lucubration; lucubrations; painstakingly polishing a piece of literary work - four character idiom

noun:

• year-before period; corresponding period of previous year; same period a year ago

noun:

• final paragraph; final paragraphs; the end of a story of block of text

expression:

• fuck you!; don't fuck with me!; don't fuck around!; don't be a screw off! - vulgar ➜ ふざけんなよ

expression:

• very improbable; vanishingly unlikely; only with a miracle

noun / ~する noun:

• defacement; abrasion; wear and tear; crushing of a nerve

noun:

• puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)

noun:

• climbing kiln; ascending kiln; connected (pottery) kilns built on a slope

noun:

• enforcement regulations; misterial ordinance; regulations relative to the application of a law

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

expression:

• near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess

expression:

• don't worry about it; it's nothing; don't give it a thought ➜ いいから

expression:

• figuratively speaking; metaphorically speaking; so to speak; to use a figure of speech

expression / noun:

• this day next week; today week; a week from today

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; in a trickle - onomatopoeia ➜ たらたら
• loosely (hanging); limply - onomatopoeia ➜ だらり