expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be a willing cats-paw or tool for a person

noun:

• cat café; theme café where patrons can pet cats ➜ 猫喫茶【ねこきっさ】

noun:

• claw sharpening
• scratching post (for cats); claw sharpener

noun:

• wisdom tooth
• not knowing who your parents are; person who doesn't know who their parents are

noun:

• proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

expression:

• How are things with you?; How are you doing?

noun:

• Lamarckian evolutionary theory in which individuals lose characteristics that are not used and develop characteristics that are often used ➜ ラマルク説

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind [literal] - proverb - sensitive

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand blind; one thousand with their eyes open [literal] - proverb - sensitive ➜ 目明き千人盲千人

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun / ~の noun:

• loggerheads; like cats and dogs; relationship of dogs and monkeys [literal] - idiom

expression:

• might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

expression:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs) ➜ 犬猿

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

expression:

• scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path - 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

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

expression:

• (particularly) when ... (often in phrases like "the bus just has to be on-time when we are late"); (only) for ...; if we are restricting the discussion to...; in the particular case of

expression:

• blue are the hills that are far away; the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; far away smells of flowers; close up smells of dung [literal] - proverb

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

expression:

• fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

expression:

• home is wherever one lays one's hat; you can make your living anywhere in this world; there's room for us all in the world; wherever there are humans, there are burial places [literal]

expression:

• like chalk and cheese (superficially similar, but completely different) (the moon and a turtle shell are both round, but they are otherwise completely different); like day and night; like the difference between heaven and hell

noun:

• anniversary of a person's death (on which Buddhist commemorative rites, etc. are performed) ➜ 命日【めいにち】
• 49th day after a person's death, on which Buddhist rituals are performed ➜ 七七日