expression / ichidan verb:

• to do something with painful reluctance; to have one's hair pulled from behind [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sit on the edge of one's seat; to be in breathless suspense

noun:

• looking furious; looking like one's about to blow their top - slang ➜ キレる

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw

noun:

• Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• the art of giving a brief glimpse of something (e.g. one's underwear)

expression / noun:

• mountain god ［やまのかみ］
• one's wife (esp. a nagging wife) ［やまのかみ］ - humorous term
• roughskin sculpin (Trachidermus fasciatus) - usually written using kana alone

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• communicativity; ability to convey one's opinion, message, etc.; power to make oneself understood

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

noun:

• passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)

noun:

• the five Ws and one H (who, what, when, where, why and how)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be able to hold one's head up (of a baby)

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw ➜ 目と鼻の先【めとはなのさき】

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 清一色

noun:

• being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to depend on somebody else's (financial) support (usu. one's parents') ➜ 親のすねをかじる

expression:

• one never knows (what will happen); there's no telling (what the future holds)

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat ➜ 四つん這い【よつんばい】

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• fitness training; development of physical strength; building stamina; keeping up one's fitness

adverb / ~と adverb:

• pleasantly (warm) - onomatopoeia
• faintly; lightly - onomatopoeia
• suddenly; unexpectedly - onomatopoeia
• accidentally; carelessly - onomatopoeia
• gaping wide; opening one's mouth wide - onomatopoeia

expression:

• blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator - proverb ➜ 時の氏神【ときのうじがみ】・挨拶