noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

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

noun:

• something to rely on; aid; clue; way; means
• someone to rely on; relative
• reminder; memento

expression:

• pretending not to know; pretending not to recognize someone (recognise); feigning ignorance; playing innocent

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; seeing is believing; to have heard of is not to have seen - proverb

noun:

• calling another player's discarded tile to complete a meld (but not to complete one's hand) - Mahjong term
• declaring a kong or calling a discarded tile to complete a meld - Mahjong term

adjective:

• able to take a lot of punishment (of a boxer, etc.); able to take a hit - Martial Arts term
• able to keep one's cool when the batter gets a hit (of a baseball pitcher)
• resilient; strong in the face of criticism or adversity

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cut off a finger (as an act of apology) ➜ 指詰め
• to catch one's finger (in a door, etc.) - Kansai dialect

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom

noun:

• adding a crowning touch of beauty (to); giving added luster (to); crowning beauty (honor, grace) with even greater glory - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

noun / ~の noun:

• (similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be lost in lust for riches; to throw all caution and conscience away in pursuit of riches ➜ 目が眩む

expression / adjective:

• having one's back to the wall; having nowhere to go; having no way out; not having another chance - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• quitting one's job as a government official to return to live quietly in one's own native region

suffix:

• ending; quitting; closing - after a noun ➜ 店じまい
• ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to - after the 〜ず negative form of a verb; indicates disappointment

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look on enviously while doing nothing; to look on with a finger in one's mouth [literal] - often 〜て見る

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to make good use of one's spare moments
• to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

noun:

• falsely-provoked arrest for obstruction; police pretending to be knocked down so as to have grounds for an arrest ➜ 公妨

adverb:

• so to speak; so to call it; as it were