Results, 'possum up a gum tree
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- 冠水☆【かんすい】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- being covered with water (i.e. in a flood); being submerged; being inundated; flooding
洪水で何百という畑が冠水した。 Hundreds of fields were submerged in the flood.
- 乾坤一擲【けんこんいってき】
noun:
- stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task - four character idiom
乾坤一擲の大勝負。情けないけどこれが見事空振りに終わったんだなあ。 It was all-or-nothing and we struck out spectacularly.
- 二つずつ【ふたつずつ】二つづつ【ふたつづつ】二つ宛【ふたつずつ・ふたつづつ・ふたつあて】二つあて【ふたつあて】
adverb / ~の noun / noun:
- two at a time; two by two; in twos
- 吹きすさぶ【ふきすさぶ】吹き荒ぶ・吹き遊ぶ Inflection
godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:
- to blow fiercely; to rage - esp. 吹き荒ぶ
- to play (a flute, etc.) for fun - esp. 吹き遊ぶ - archaism
- 筆を置く【ふでをおく】筆を擱く Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to stop writing; to put down one's pen; to close (a letter)
- 幕を引く【まくをひく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to draw closed the curtain (of a theatre, etc.); "to come to an end" [figurative] ➜ 幕を閉じる
- 約束を破る【やくそくをやぶる】約束をやぶる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を守る
- 約束破る【やくそくやぶる】約束やぶる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を破る
- 子持ち☆【こもち】子持
noun:
- parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother)
- (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)
- 前駆☆【ぜんく・せんぐobs.・ぜんぐobs.】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); outriding
- harbinger; herald; precursor; forerunner; foretoken
- anticipation
- てるてる坊主【てるてるぼうず】照る照る坊主・照照坊主・照々坊主
noun:
- paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)
- 畳水練【たたみすいれん】
noun:
- useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term
- 生き霊【いきりょう・いきすだまobs.】生霊【いきりょう・いきすだまobs.・せいれい】生き魑魅・生魑魅【いきすだまobs.】
noun:
- vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; wraith
- mankind; souls; people ［せいれい］
- 畳の上の水練【たたみのうえのすいれん】
noun:
- useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term
コンピューターのマニュアルを読むだけでは所詮畳の上の水練だ。 Just reading a computer manual is like practicing swimming on dry land.
- 台直し鉋【だいなおしかんな】台直しかんな
noun:
- plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes
- 事情変更の原則【じじょうへんこうのげんそく】
noun:
- clausula rebus sic stantibus (legal principle that agreements become non-binding if there is a major, unforeseeable change of circumstances)
- 白沢【はくたく】白澤
noun:
- bai ze (mythical chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)
- 浩然の気【こうぜんのき】
noun:
- universal life force (the source of animation for all things)
- free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)
- 千番に一番の兼ね合い【せんばんにいちばんのかねあい】千番に一番の兼合
expression:
- something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success - obscure term
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