Results, one-upmanship
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- 一家眷属【いっかけんぞく】
noun:
- one's family, relations, and followers - four character idiom
- 波を切る【なみをきる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to cut one's way through the waves
- 用弁【ようべん】用辨 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- finishing one's business; settling an affair
- 礼奉公【れいぼうこう】
noun:
- free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship ➜ お礼奉公
- 職務上【しょくむじょう】
expression:
- in the course of one's duties
- 約束に背く【やくそくにそむく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- 糟糠の妻【そうこうのつま】
expression / noun:
- one's devoted wife; wife who has followed one through hard times; wife married in poverty
- 投身【とうしん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- throwing oneself to one's death; precipitating oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death ➜ 投身自殺
- 横座り【よこずわり】横坐り Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- sitting with one's legs out to one side
- 据え膳【すえぜん】据膳
noun:
- meal set before one
- women's advances
- 門鑑【もんかん】
noun:
- a pass allowing one through a gate
- 親に逆らう【おやにさからう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- 献花台【けんかだい】
noun:
- stand, table or altar on which one places donated flowers
- 一対一対応【いちたいいちたいおう】
noun:
- one-to-one correspondence - Mathematics term
- 在世中【ざいせいちゅう】
noun / ~の noun:
- 星回り【ほしまわり】
noun:
- one's star; one's fortune or destiny
- いつの日にか【いつのひにか】
expression:
- one of these days; someday
- 人生初【じんせいはつ】
noun / ~の noun:
- (for the) first time in one's life
- 一難【いちなん】
noun:
- one difficulty; one danger
一難去って又一難。 Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- 歳月人を待たず【さいげつひとをまたず】
expression:
- time waits for no-one; time and tide stay for no man - proverb
- オンリーワン・オンリー・ワン
noun / ~の noun:
- only one (person, thing); sole; unique
~の noun:
- highest; best; most outstanding
- custom-made
- 信を置く【しんをおく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- 後が無い【あとがない】後がない Inflection
expression / adjective:
- having one's back to the wall; having nowhere to go; having no way out; not having another chance - idiom
- 爪を噛む癖【つめをかむくせ】
expression:
- habit of biting one's nails
- 気休めを言う【きやすめをいう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to say things to ease one's mind