寸

look; glance; (at first) sight

(can you) spare a little time (to speak)?; (do you) have a moment (to speak)?

without the least difference; exactly; perfectly; to the inch

dwarf; midget; elf; Tom Thumb; Jack Sprat

Issun-bōshi (Japanese fairytale)

accurate; flawless; perfectly ordered; without deviation

being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve

eloquence or flattery designed to deceive

Critically Endangered (conservation status); CE

Pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)

slight; minor; trifling; trivial; petty

Pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)

considerable; proper; decent; respectable; quite (a)

Proverb

no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness

near bankruptcy; edge of bankruptcy; bumper-to-bumper

one's mind; one's inner feelings; (a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it

a little too short

slightly worse; a bit inferior

a little short; sawed-off (pants)

Idiomatic expression; Often adverbially as ～に...

(at a) snail's pace; inch by (painful) inch

dagger

Common error for 舌先三寸

glib tongue; eloquence or flattery designed to deceive

Proverb

tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them

petty swindling; petty swindler

Idiomatic expression

to make a cutting remark; to stab someone with a short blade

eloquent tongue

in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen

one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose

external dimensions