Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 我を通す【がをとおす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way
- 手を下す【てをくだす】手をくだす Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to do oneself; to do by oneself
- to start work (on); to commence ➜ 手をつける
- チャグチャグ馬コ【チャグチャグうまコ】チャグチャグ馬こ【チャグチャグうまこ】
noun:
- Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)
- small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)
- ハイチェア・ハイチェアー・ハイ・チェア・ハイ・チェアー
noun:
- tall chair (e.g. for eating at a counter); bar stool
- high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food ➜ 子供椅子
- 聞き返す☆【ききかえす】訊き返す・きき返す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to listen repeatedly; to listen again
- to ask a question in return
- to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
- ぶれる・ブレる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to be blurred (due to motion; of a photo, video, etc.); to be shaken (of a camera)
- to waver (in one's beliefs, policy, etc.)
- to shift (position); to be slightly off
- 閉口頓首【へいこうとんしゅ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom
- 五夜【ごや】
noun:
- division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
- the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)
- 盾の両面を見よ【たてのりょうめんをみよ】楯の両面を見よ
expression:
- look at both sides of the thing; look at both sides of the shield [literal] - proverb
- それる☆《逸れる》 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to swerve from; to miss (e.g. a target)
- to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to to go astray; to wander
自爆テロ犯はベナジル・ブット元首相に向けて発砲したが、弾はそれた。 The suicide bomber fired towards former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but missed.
- 手をつける【てをつける】手を付ける・手を着ける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to set one's hand to; to start work on
- to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion)
- to have sexual relations; to have an affair
- 関心を呼ぶ【かんしんをよぶ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~ぶ verb:
- to be the subject of attention; to call people's attention; to be the rage; to be of interest
- 型にはまる【かたにはまる】型に嵌まる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to fit the mold; to fit the mould; to be standard; to be customary; to be unoriginal; to be stale ➜ 型に嵌める【かたにはめる】
- サイドキック・サイド・キック
noun:
- side-foot (e.g. in soccer); kick with the side of the foot - From English "sidekick"
- side kick (e.g. in martial arts)
- sidekick; companion
- 吹き寄せる【ふきよせる】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to drift; to blow together ➜ 吹き集める
- to have the wind start to blow; to have the wind spring up
- 頭が上がらない【あたまがあがらない】頭があがらない Inflection
expression / adjective:
- to be no match for (e.g. outclassed in authority, strength or in debt to); to be unable to act on an equal basis with - idiom
- カウンター☆・カウンタ
noun:
- クール☆ Inflection
adjectival noun:
- cool (temperature, color, etc.)
- cool (i.e. calm and collected)
- cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.)
noun:
- course (of medical treatment) - From German "Kur"
- season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period) - From French "cours"
- 抱え込む☆【かかえこむ】かかえ込む・抱えこむ Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby)
- to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
- 重ねる★【かさねる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to put on top of another
- to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
年齢を重ねるにつれ、だんだん遠視になってきている。 I'm getting farsighted as I get older.
- 魏【ぎ】
noun:
- Wei; Cao Wei; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms period (220-266) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
- Wei; kingdom in China during the Warring States period (403-225 BCE)
- 路頭に迷う【ろとうにまよう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out - idiom
- 買い漁る【かいあさる】買いあさる Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to buy all (of something) one can get one's hands on; to buy up; to scoop up
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