Results, 'possum up a gum tree
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- 形式段落【けいしきだんらく】
noun:
- formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落
- 銀目【ぎんめ】銀眼
noun:
- Edo-period unit of silver coinage [銀目]
- steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)
- silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica) - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ 銀目鯛
- 仕切り直し【しきりなおし】しきり直し・仕切りなおし
noun:
- getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again - Sumo term
- starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one
- 当然のことながら【とうぜんのことながら】当然の事ながら
expression / adverb:
- naturally; not surprisingly; it should be appreciated that; understandably; as a matter of course; as is obvious; as will be understood
当然の事ながら、その頭の良い若い女性は試験に受かった。 The smart young woman passed the exam as a matter of course.
- 賄う☆【まかなう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to supply (goods, money, etc.); to cover (costs); to pay; to finance; to maintain (e.g. a family)
- to give board; to provide meals
- 突き止める☆【つきとめる】突きとめる・突止める・突き留める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; to locate; to identify
- to stab to death - archaism ➜ 突き殺す
彼らの隠れ家を突き止めるのに1週間かかった。 It took one week to locate their hiding place.
- たり☆・だり
particle:
- -ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going") - as …たり…たり, after the ren'youkei forms of multiple verbs
- doing such things as... - used adverbially
- expresses a command - as …たり…たり at sentence-end, after the ren'youkei forms of a repeated verb
auxiliary verb:
- to be [たり] - from とあり, after a noun - archaism ➜ たる
- indicates completion or continuation of an action [たり] - from 〜てあり, after the ren'youkei form of a verb - archaism
- ラストスパート☆・ラスト・スパート
noun:
- last spurt; home stretch; last part of a race or period of time where you give it your best effort
- 俗☆【ぞく・しょくobs.】 Inflection
noun:
- layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
- local manners; modern customs
adjectival noun / ~の noun:
- common; popular
- vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】
ウチは俗に言うシングルマザーの家庭だ。父親の顔を僕は知らない。 We're what they colloquially call a single mother family. I haven't seen my father's face.
- 負け犬☆【まけいぬ】
noun:
- dejected loser; dog that has lost a fight (with its tail between its legs) [literal]
- unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - slang - derogatory term ➜ お一人様【おひとりさま】
- 慰安婦【いあんふ】
noun:
- women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦
- 朝三暮四【ちょうさんぼし】
noun:
- being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom
- 様様【さまさま】様々
suffix:
- our gracious (e.g. Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you
- エコーはがき《エコー葉書》
noun:
- postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards
- 腰パン【こしパン】
noun:
- wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist); pants worn in such a manner - abbreviation - slang
- お蔵【おくら】お倉・御蔵・御倉
noun:
- shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
- rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate
- 五具足【ごぐそく】
noun:
- five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner
- 惣領制【そうりょうせい】
noun:
- soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)
- 買取屋【かいとりや】買い取り屋・買取り屋
noun:
- companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price
- ふるさと納税【ふるさとのうぜい】故郷納税
noun:
- "benefit-your-locality" tax scheme; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government
- デスクトップ・ディスクトップirr.
noun:
- desktop
- desktop computer - IT term
- desktop of a computer (the primary screen for most graphical-based computer operating systems) - IT term
- 心がこもる【こころがこもる】心が籠もる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be thoughtful (of a gift, etc.); to be from the heart; to be made with loving care
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