Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- くだん《件》
~の noun:
- the aforementioned; the said; (man, incident, etc.) in question; the above-mentioned; the aforesaid
- the usual
ちょうどその時、件の二人が登校してきた。 Just then the two in question arrived at school.
- 本末転倒☆【ほんまつてんとう】本末顛倒 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom
あなたの言っていることは本末転倒だと思わないかい? Don't you think you're putting the cart before the horse?
- なぜなら☆《何故なら》
conjunction:
- because; the reason is; if you want to know why
聞いて驚くなよ!今日から俺はピアノを始めるんだ。なぜなら私は音楽の先生になりたいからだ! Brace yourselves! From today I'm learning the piano. Why? Because I want to become a music teacher!
- はたはた・ハタハタ
~と adverb / adverb:
- flutter; flap; sound of something light moving in the wind - onomatopoeia
- 風に柳【かぜにやなぎ】
expression / ~と adverb:
- without making waves; softly; (like) a willow in the wind [literal] - idiom
- 臘【ろう】
noun:
- offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
- twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
- year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈
- 槍が降っても【やりがふっても】
expression:
- whatever misfortune happens; even if spears fall out of the sky [literal] ➜ 雨が降ろうが槍が降ろうが【あめがふろうがやりがふろうが】
- 子供騒げば雨が降る【こどもさわげばあめがふる】
expression:
- if the kids make a racket outside, there will be rain - traditional belief - proverb
- いたちの道【いたちのみち】鼬の道
expression:
- not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal]
- いたちの道切り【いたちのみちきり】鼬の道切り
expression:
- not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal] ➜ いたちの道
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