Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 冠★【かんむり・かん・かむり・かんぶり】 Inflection
noun:
- traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers ➜ 衣冠・束帯
- crown; diadem; coronet
- top kanji radical [かんむり]
- first verse of a haikai, etc. [かむり] ➜ 俳諧
~たる adjective / ~と adverb:
- best; peerless; first [かん]
noun:
- name; title; named sponsorship of a program, event, team, etc. [かんむり]
先生は生徒の作った花の冠をかぶった。 The teacher put on a crown of flowers which was made by her pupils.
- 下手な考え休むに似たり【へたなかんがえやすむににたり】
expression:
- It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり
- 下手の考え休むに似たり【へたのかんがえやすむににたり】
expression:
- It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり
- 天下り★【あまくだり】天降り Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
- command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
- descent from heaven - orig. meaning
日本の官僚達は国家が破綻するまで天下りを続けて税金をむさぼる国賊に過ぎない! Japanese bureaucrats are nothing but traitors to the country who covet our tax money and will continue the practice of amakudari until the country is bankrupt.
- 牛飲馬食【ぎゅういんばしょく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom
- 連なる☆【つらなる】列なる Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row
- to attend; to participate in
- to enrol; to enroll; to join
- to have a connection; to be related; to be linked
- 本体★【ほんたい・ほんだいobs.】
noun / ~の noun:
- substance; real form
- main part; main unit; body (of a machine)
noun:
- this machine; this appliance
noun / ~の noun:
- object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
- noumenon
noun:
- base price; pre-tax price - abbreviation ➜ 本体価格【ほんたいかかく】
なんであれ物事の本体を捕らえる事が肝心だ。 No matter what the problem is, it's essential to get at the heart of the matter.
- こける《転ける・倒けるold》 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to collapse
- to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
- 不思議なくらい【ふしぎなくらい】
expression:
- curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
- ダブルリーチ《ダブル立直・二重立直・W立直・両立直》
noun:
- declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - Mahjong term ➜ 立直【リーチ】
- 見つめる☆【みつめる】見詰める☆・凝めるold Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
アルフォンスが空を見上げたまま、速く流れる雲を見つめていた。 Alphonse looked at the racing clouds, his eyes turned to the sky.
- 水無月【みなづき・みなつき】
adverbial noun / noun:
- sixth month of the lunar calendar (approx. July) - obsolete term
- June; sixth month of Gregorian calendar
noun:
- triangles of sweet rice jelly topped with adzuki beans (eaten in the sixth month) - Food term
- お約束【おやくそく】御約束 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束
noun / ~の noun:
- something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)
- 揚げ巻【あげまき】揚巻・総角
noun:
- old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
- Meiji period women's hairstyle
- type of dance in kabuki [揚げ巻・揚巻]
- knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) [揚げ巻・揚巻] - Sumo term
- constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝
- 騙る【かたる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
- to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)
- 一番勝負【いちばんしょうぶ】
noun:
- contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom
- 一回勝負【いっかいしょうぶ】
noun:
- contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom
- 一発勝負【いっぱつしょうぶ】
noun:
- contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom
- 尖った・尖がったirr.【とがった・とんがった】尖んがったirr.【とんがった】
noun or verb acting prenominally:
きつつきは、長く尖ったくちばしで、木の幹をつついて、中にいる虫を食べます。 Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.
- 手に入る☆【てにはいる】手にはいる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
- さばを読む【さばをよむ】鯖を読む Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom
- 逆立ちしても【さかだちしても】
expression:
- no matter how hard one might try; no matter what one does; even if one stood on one's head [literal] ➜ 逆立ち
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