Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper

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人生模様【じんせいもようjinseimoyou】

noun:

  • facets (aspects) of (human) life; the pattern of (one's) life - four character idiom
都合次第【つごうしだいtsugoushidai】

noun:

  • depending on the (one's) situation (circumstances); at one's pleasure - four character idiom
天地晦冥【てんちかいめいtenchikaimei】

expression:

  • The world is covered in darkness; All is plunged into darkness - four character idiom
夫婦養子【ふうふようしfuufuyoushi・めおとようしmeotoyoushi】

noun:

  • adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family
崩壊寸前【ほうかいすんぜんhoukaisunzen】

noun:

  • on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse - four character idiom
パワハラPAWAHARA

noun:

夜を明かす【よをあかすyowoakasu】 Inflection

expression / godan ~す verb:

  • to stay up all night; to spend the night without sleep
ありたけaritake・ありだけaridake《有り丈》

noun / adverb:

  • all that one has; all that there is; the whole ➜ 有りっ丈
押せ押せ【おせおせoseose】

noun:

  • putting on the pressure; pushing forward
  • being pressed; being under pressure
チャラ付く【チャラつくCHARAtsuku】 Inflection

godan ~く verb:

  • to make (the effort to make) oneself look cool - slang
みちおしえmichioshie《道教え・道教・路導》

noun:

  • tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica) - colloquialism ➜ 斑猫
東瀛【とうえいtouei】

noun:

  • the pacific side of Japan; eastern sea
  • of or about Japan
独仏戦争【どくふつせんそうdokufutsusensou】

noun:

  • Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871) ➜ 普仏戦争
はよhayo《早よ・早》

adverb:

  • early; quickly; soon - slang, ksb, arch. equiv. of 早く - colloquialism - abbreviation

noun:

  • early morning; early hour; early in the day
後の月【のちのつきnochinotsuki】

noun:

  • moon of the 13th day of 9th lunar month - archaism ➜ 十三夜
  • leap month ➜ 閏月
口の利き方【くちのききかたkuchinokikikata】口のきき方・口の効き方

expression:

  • the way one talks; one's way of speaking
いい線いってる【いいせんいってるiisen'itteru】いい線行ってる Inflection

expression / ichidan verb:

烏焉魯魚【うえんろぎょuenrogyo】

noun:

  • miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word
魯魚の誤り【ろぎょのあやまりrogyonoayamari】

noun:

  • miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word ➜ 烏焉魯魚
放る【ひるhiru】 Inflection

godan ~る verb / transitive:

  • to expel (from the body); to excrete; to defecate; to give birth
ペン回し【ペンまわしPENmawashi】

noun:

  • pen spinning; spinning a pen around between the fingers
玉結び【たまむすびtamamusubi】

noun:

  • thread knot (end of the thread tied up to a knot)
ためらわずにtamerawazuni《躊躇わずに》

expression:

  • without hesitation; without a qualm; at the drop of a hat
肌で知る【はだでしるhadadeshiru】 Inflection

expression / godan ~る verb:

  • to know something by direct experience; to know through the skin [literal]
枯葦【かれあしkareashi】枯蘆

noun:

  • withered reeds (esp. reeds that have withered in the winter)
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