expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - proverb

expression / adjective:

• of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless ➜ 役に立たない【やくにたたない】

adverb / noun:

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

expression:

• there, there; kiss it better; pain, pain, fly away [literal] - said to comfort a child in pain

expression / adverb:

• namely; that is; which is to say

expression:

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

noun:

• donothingism; do-nothing, plan-nothing (government, etc.); being an idle onlooker taking no steps to meet the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• kome hyappyo; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; hundred sacks of rice [literal] - idiom

expression:

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

expression / noun:

• useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand - idiom

expression:

• we are innocent until proven guilty; suspicion alone is not grounds for punishment; in dubio pro reo - proverb

noun:

• empty-handed; with nothing to start with; without capital - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fall through; to come to nothing; to be ruined

noun / ~の noun:

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

expression:

• it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world

expression:

• fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch, a broken mirror can not be made to shine; what's done is done; there's no use crying over spilled milk - proverb

expression / noun:

• difficult person; good-for-nothing; pain in the ass (arse)

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

suffix:

• far from; anything but; not at all
• let alone; to say nothing of; not to speak of; much less

expression / adjective:

• not a moment to waste; there is no time to lose; cannot wait any longer

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

expression:

• having no relation with whatsoever; having nothing to do with; alien

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body; the eyes are the mirror of the heart [literal] - proverb

suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for