Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 虚々実々☆【きょきょじつじつ】虚虚実実
noun / ~の noun:
- full of wiles and tricks; match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster; shrewdly avoiding the opponent's strong points and attacking its weaknesses - four character idiom
いつも真っ向勝負だけでなく、たまには虚虚実実の駆け引きとやらもやってみたいよね。 We have to be ready not only for a straightforward test of strength, but also for a struggle in which every strategy comes into play.
- いよいよ☆《愈々・愈・弥々・愈愈・弥弥》イヨイヨ
adverb:
- more and more; all the more; increasingly
- at last; finally; beyond doubt
- (at the) last moment; worst possible time
いよいよ薄暮、もうすぐ宵闇。 It's getting more and more shadowy, soon it will be twilight.
いよいよ千載一遇のチャンスがめぐってきた。 At last, a chance in a million arrived.
- 座敷☆【ざしき】坐敷irr.
noun:
- tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room
- dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)
- 買い上げる☆【かいあげる】買上げる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
- to buy up (all of something)
- バミる Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to mark a stage, movie set, etc. with tape to indicate positions of actors, furniture, equipment, etc.; to block a set - from 場を見る - slang
- 聞こえ☆【きこえ】聞え
noun:
- being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reception (e.g. of a radio station)
- reputation; renown; fame; hearsay
- impression (that something gives off); respectability
- sonority - Linguistics term
- 夜目遠目笠の内【よめとおめかさのうち】
expression:
- expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat
- 弁★【べん】辯old・瓣old・辨old
noun:
- speech; tongue; talk; eloquence [弁・辯]
suffix noun:
- dialect; brogue; accent [弁・辯]
noun:
noun / ~の noun:
- valve [弁・瓣]
noun:
大阪弁ではラ行がスペイン語のように巻き舌になることがある。 Osakans sometimes roll their Rs like in Spanish.
- 儲ける☆【もうける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to profit; to get; to earn; to gain
- to have (bear, beget) a child
- to have a stroke of luck
例えば、結婚しないで同棲して子供をもうける人が増えている。 For example, more people are choosing to live together and have children without getting married.
- 更迭☆【こうてつ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister); replacement
田中前外相の更迭に続く政治混乱がその象徴である。 The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil.
- 閑古鳥が鳴く【かんこどりがなく】かんこ鳥が鳴く・閑子鳥が鳴く Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business) - idiom ➜ 閑古鳥
- 激する【げきする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.):
- to intensify
- to be excited; to fly into a rage; to get into a passion
- to dash against
- to encourage
- 激す【げきす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb:
- to intensify ➜ 激する
- to be excited; to fly into a rage; to get into a passion
- to dash against
- to encourage
- 三皇后【さんこうごう】
noun:
- Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort - obscure term ➜ 三后
- 廟号【びょうごう】
noun:
- temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
- name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)
- くわえ込む【くわえこむ】咥え込む・銜え込む・咥えこむ・銜えこむ Inflection
godan ~む verb:
- to hold fast deep in (one's mouth or other orifice, often used in a sexual context)
- to bring in a man for sex
- ひだ《襞》ヒダ
noun:
- fold; pleat; gathers; tuck
- folds (e.g of a mountain); crease
- (hidden) detail; nuance; shade; wrinkle (e.g. in logic)
- lamella; gill (of a mushroom)
- 〇〇【まるまる】○○
noun:
- symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)
prefix noun:
- certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified
- トイレに立つ【トイレにたつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to go to the bathroom; to go to the restroom; to excuse oneself
- 頭立つ【かしらだつ】 Inflection
godan ~つ verb / transitive:
- to become the head; to rise to the top; to rank above; to stand above
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