noun / ~する noun:

• buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books

noun:

• books bought but not read

noun / ~する noun:

• failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later

noun:

• front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls) ➜ ダミー会社

noun:

• confection comprising two thin waffle-like biscuits with cream between them - From French "gaufre"

noun:

• small confection comprising two thin waffle-like biscuits with cream between them - From French "gaufrette" ➜ ゴーフル

noun:

• cards with stanzas of waka written on them
• card-matching game played with these cards

expression:

• if you can't beat them; join them; you can't fight city hall; if your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side than to fight them - proverb

expression:

• if you can't beat them; join them; if your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side than to fight them - proverb

noun:

• (all of) you or them

noun / ~する noun:

• beating someone up by ganging up on them; facing a barrage of criticism

expression:

• things cannot be larger than the things that contain them; there are no boars larger than the mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• pounding the edges of planks of wood to join them

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn someone down (on some pretext) without offending them; to refuse gracefully; to decline politely

noun:

• "ear-hanging" scallop spat, i.e. piercing the resilium to string them

noun:

• collecting waste paper (old newspapers etc.) and exchanging them for tissues

noun:

• center for collecting charitable contributions (money, goods, and-or services) and distributing them to people in need - four character idiom

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

noun:

• washing of bones before placing them in a bone storage urn (esp. in Okinawa) ➜ 厨子

noun:

• kowtow ➜ 叩頭

noun:

• (university) club that exists for the purpose of getting women drunk and taking advantage of them

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing clothes, etc. by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to use somebody's (argument, attack) against them

expression:

• one of them

expression:

• evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom