to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; (lit.) a crab digs a hole like its own shell
kanji "mound" or "small village" radical at left (radical 170)
Sincerely yours (with the nuance of "please excuse the brevity of this letter")
fish served whole (complete with head and tail)
vamp (woman who uses sex appeal to exploit men)
in its entirety; whole; wholly
leaving everything to Buddha's providence; depending on others; leaving things to others
speak of the devil and he shall appear; (lit.) speak rumours of someone and they shall appear
paying loan installments whenever one happens to have money (instalments)
Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over
hitting the maximum value of a numeric counter
misconduct; misbehaviour; impropriety; profligacy
street gossips and idle rumors
knowing when to give up; good at letting things go; accepting failure with good grace; being a good loser
ocular muscles; muscles that control eye movement
facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent
shallow-minded mouthing of secondhand information
flamberge; sword with undulations in the blade
to think hard about (something that one doesn't know much of); to rack one's brain
"it was all a dream"-ending
knowing what is right and not doing it is a want of courage
Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong")
silver nugget; silver ingot; silver bullion
mnemonics; art of memorizing; mnemonic device
anecdote; brief (comic) story
two days before yesterday; three days back (ago)
to mesh (of gears); (fig.) to be in sync (of people, organizations, etc.)