Results, one-trick pony
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- 十八番☆【じゅうはちばん・おはこ】御箱【おはこ】
noun:
- one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; one's forte
- No. 18; eighteenth [じゅうはちばん]
- repertoire of 18 kabuki plays [じゅうはちばん] - abbreviation ➜ 歌舞伎十八番
- 常用手段【じょうようしゅだん】
noun:
- one's usual practice; one's old trick; one's usual modus operandi; the same old tactic - four character idiom
- 子供だまし【こどもだまし】子供騙し
noun / expression:
- trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick
- その手は食わない【そのてはくわない】その手はくわない・其の手は食わない
expression:
- I am not going to fall for that trick; that trick won't work on me ➜ その手【そのて】
- 目的のためには手段を選ばない【もくてきのためにはしゅだんをえらばない】
expression:
- to be willing to do anything (any trick) to achieve one's end ➜ 手段を選ばずに
- かすめる《掠める》 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to steal; to rob; to snatch; to pocket; to plunder
- to deceive; to trick; to cheat
- to graze (in passing); to skim; to brush against; to touch lightly
- to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.); to flit (through one's mind, across one's face)
- to do (something) while no one is looking - often as 目をかすめて
- to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate - archaism
トラックは狭い道を塀にかすめるように通った。 The truck scraped along the wall in the narrow road.
- 手★【て】
noun:
- hand; arm - occ. pronounced た when a prefix ➜ お手【おて】
- forepaw; foreleg - colloquialism ➜ お手【おて】
- handle
- hand; worker; help
- trouble; care; effort
- means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
- hand; handwriting
- kind; type; sort
- one's hands; one's possession ➜ 手に入る
- ability to cope ➜ 手に余る
- hand (of cards)
- direction ➜ 山の手
noun / suffix noun / counter:
- move (in go, shogi, etc.)
こちらに来るように手で合図した。 I made motions at him to come here with my hand.
ここに手のないナベがある。 Here is a pan without handles.
いい手を思いついた。 I hit upon a good idea.
- 小手先☆【こてさき】
noun:
- tip of one's hand
- cheap trick; superficial wit; superficial cleverness
~の noun:
- lukewarm; cheap; perfunctory; makeshift; shortsighted
- うっちゃり《打っちゃり》
noun:
- trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
- last-minute reversal
- 種☆【たね】
noun:
- seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kind; variety; quality; tone
- material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject; theme; (news) copy
- ingredient; leaven (bread); main ingredient of a sushi - Food term
- cause; source
- trick; secret; magician's trick; inside story
- paternal blood; lineage ➜ 胤
- breed (of a stock); sperm; semen
蒔かぬ種は生えない。 You must sow before you can reap.
1つの種が絶滅するたびに、我々は自然界の一部を永久に失うことになる。 Every time a species dies out, we lose forever a part of our natural world.
そんなことをすれば笑いものの種なるよ。 If you do that, you're going to subject yourself to ridicule.
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