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- 否定疑問文【ひていぎもんぶん】
noun:
- negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term
- いざとなったら・いざとなれば・いざとなると
expression:
- when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives
- 泥を吐く【どろをはく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to fess up; to come clean; to confess one's crimes; to spill the beans
- 天の声【てんのこえ】
expression / noun:
- heavenly voice ➜ 天声
- off the record instructions; influential person's opinion; powerful person's verdict - idiom
- 棚経【たなぎょう】
noun:
- chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】
- 掻き撫でる【かきなでる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to smooth with the hand; to stroke; to comb (down)
- to pluck a stringed instrument
- 籠鳥恋雲【ろうちょうれんうん】
noun:
- longing for freedom when tied down; caged bird's longing for the open sky [literal] - four character idiom
- 足を踏み入れる【あしをふみいれる】足を踏みいれる・足をふみいれる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold
- 尻文字【しりもじ】
noun:
- writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips) - colloquialism
- 野良アプリ【のらアプリ】
noun:
- non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores ➜ 野良【のら】
- 勝手アプリ【かってアプリ】
noun:
- non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores
- 非公式アプリ【ひこうしきアプリ】
noun:
- non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores
- 一般アプリ【いっぱんアプリ】
noun:
- non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores
- 舟に刻して剣を求む【ふねにこくしてけんをもとむ】
expression:
- to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom
- 剣を落として舟を刻む【けんをおとしてふねをきざむ】
expression:
- to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - idiom
- 舟に刻みて剣を求む【ふねにきざみてけんをもとむ】
expression:
- to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom
- 駒形【こまがた】
noun / ~の noun:
- koma shape; five-sided shape in the form of a koma (shogi game piece) ➜ 駒【こま】
- 煩悩☆【ぼんのう】煩惱old
noun:
- worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh
- klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term
「百八といえば煩悩の数だ」「お兄ちゃんはどんな煩悩があるの?」「言ってもいいが、検閲削除になるぞ」 "Talking about 108, that's the number of worldly passions." "What worldly passions have you got then?" "I could say, but it'll get censored out."
- 出合い頭☆【であいがしら】出会い頭・出合頭irr.・出会頭irr.
adverbial noun / temporal noun:
- in passing another (esp. colliding with oncoming traffic, bumping into a person); the moment two persons or objects meet
わたしが前をよく見てなかったから、出会い頭にぶつかっちゃって。小川くんは悪くないわ。 Because I wasn't looking where I was going, I bumped into him when we passed. It wasn't his fault.
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