Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- 山越し【やまごし】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- wind blowing down, coming over a mountain
noun:
- immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
- winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term
- 風鐸【ふうたく】
noun:
- bronze wind bells hanging from eaves of temple towers or halls (esp. four corners) - archaism
- wind bell; wind chimes - archaism
- 主客転倒【しゅかくてんとう・しゅきゃくてんとう】主客顛倒 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end - four character idiom
- 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子【ていしゅのすきなあかえぼし】
expression:
- family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子
- 目くそ鼻くそを笑う【めくそはなくそをわらう】目糞鼻糞を笑う・目糞鼻屎を笑う
expression:
- the pot calling the kettle black; the goop in the eye laughing at the snot in the nose [literal] - idiom
- 強いて言えば【しいていえば】しいて言えば
expression:
- if I'm forced to say something; if anything; if I must say; if I must choose
- 裏帆【うらほ】
noun:
- sail with the wind at its back
adverb:
- aback
ジブの裏帆とラダーを使って、バックしながら船首を進みたい方向に向けました。 Using the rudder and the jib with the wind behind it we backed up, turning the bow to the direction we wanted to go.
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