Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 着もじ【ちゃくもじ】
noun:
- text message or symbol on a busy mobile phone indicating a call arrival (DoCoMo feature)
- 肩透かし☆【かたすかし】肩すかし
noun:
- under-shoulder swing-down; technique of grasping the arm of the opponent, the moment he comes forward, while stepping out of line and pushing down on the shoulder blade with the other hand, thus pulling him down - Sumo term
- dodging; parrying (questions) ➜ 肩透かしを食わせる【かたすかしをくわせる】
- disappointment; letdown
- 物心が付く【ものごころがつく】物心がつく Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to become old enough to understand what's going on around oneself (of a child, etc.); to reach the age of discretion
- あら《粗・荒》アラ
noun:
- remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting) - usu. アラ
- flaw (esp. of a person); fault; defect
- rice chaff
prefix:
- rough
- crude; raw; natural; wild
- 主眼を置く【しゅがんをおく】主眼をおく Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼
- 警察沙汰【けいさつざた】
noun:
- a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom
- ぶつ☆《打つ・撃つ・撲つ》 Inflection
godan ~つ verb / transitive:
- to hit (a person); to strike; to beat
- to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)
- ここ☆《此処・此所・茲・爰》
noun:
- here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
- these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
- these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから
ここに手のないナベがある。 Here is a pan without handles.
この町の人口はここ10年間動きがない。 The population of this town has been static for the last ten years.
- 残った【のこった】
interjection:
- not yet!; cry by the referee when one wrestler is on the attack - Sumo term
noun or verb acting prenominally:
- remaining; left-over
花火の弾ける音が止むと、急に辺りが静かになる。後に残った火薬の匂いが、なんだか俺をセンチメンタルな気分にさせた。 As the popping sound of the fireworks stopped, it suddenly became quiet around me. The smell of gunpowder somehow put me in a sentimental mood.
- 水無月祓【みなづきばらえ】六月祓
noun:
- summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓
- 門中【もんちゅう】
noun:
- family clan based on the paternal line, sharing the same tomb and performing rituals together (Okinawa)
- 盲☆【めくら・めしい】瞽【めくら】
noun:
- blindness; blind person - sensitive
- illiteracy; illiterate person [めくら]
- ignorance; ignoramus [めくら]
盲馬にはうなずいても目配せしても同じこと。 A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
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