noun:

• constant attendance; uninterrupted supervision; staying with someone all the time

adjectival noun / noun:

• kill-joy; wet-blanket; skeleton at the feast

noun:

• in these times; in times likes these; the season being what it is ➜ 時節柄

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

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

expression:

• Talented people tend to be of delicate constitution; Men of genius tend to be of delicate health; Whom the gods love die young - four character idiom

noun:

• rale; rales; crackles; abnormal rattling sound in the lungs - From German "Rasselgeräusch"

adverb / ~の noun:

• as always; as ever; though it's always the case

noun:

• bustle; crinolette; patch lining the seat (kimono)
• hip pad (football) - Sports term
• loin guard (armor); tasse

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to crack down on (e.g. crime, corruption); to deal a crushing blow to; to bring down the hammer on ➜ 鉄槌【てっつい】

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• slight; thin; on the weak side

noun:

• doh; do; 1st note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun / ~する noun:

• spinning of cocoons; silkworm's last sleep; transformation to the pupa stage

noun:

• commoners; peasantry; the masses - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to control; to command; to get the better of ➜ 制する

expression / ichidan verb:

• to leave to chance; to resign oneself to one's fate; to leave the rest to heaven - idiom

noun:

• arrow view; view on arrow; fragmentary view taken in the direction of an arrow

adverb / noun:

• all that one has; all that there is; the whole

adverb / noun:

• mostly; almost; nearly; for the most part

adverb:

• roughly; approximately; about

noun:

• remote countryside; boondocks; the sticks ➜ ど

expression:

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

noun:

• corpus uteri; uterine body; body of the uterus

expression:

• There isn't a moment to be wasted; Every moment is precious; Make hay while the sun shines - proverb