Results, 'possum up a gum tree
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- 縄を掛ける【なわをかける】縄をかける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize
- to bind (something) with rope
- 乗り出す☆【のりだす・のりいだす】乗出す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to set out; to set sail
- to embark on (a new venture); to set out (to achieve something)
- to begin to ride
- to lean forward
人類は宇宙に乗り出すことに成功した。 Human beings succeeded in flying into space.
役員達はそんな危険な事業に乗り出すのをしぶった。 The directors were reluctant to undertake so risky a venture.
- 常用漢字☆【じょうようかんじ】
noun:
- kanji for common use; jōyō kanji; list of 2,136 kanji established in 2010, formerly a list of 1,945 established in 1981 ➜ 当用漢字
- 食わず嫌い☆【くわずぎらい】食わずぎらい
expression:
- disliking a certain food without having tried it
- disliking something without having tried it; being prejudiced against; having an instinctive aversion to
- 役者子供【やくしゃこども】
noun:
- skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
- child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism
- 清水の舞台から飛び降りる【きよみずのぶたいからとびおりる】清水の舞台から飛び下りる・清水の舞台から飛びおりる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom
- 荒れる☆【あれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to be stormy; to be rough
- to be ruined; to fall into ruin
- to be in a bad temper; to lose one's temper
- 色褪せる【いろあせる】色あせる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour)
- to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale; to pale
- 手も足も出ない【てもあしもでない】
expression:
- cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end
- 槍玉に上がる【やりだまにあがる】槍玉にあがる・やり玉に上がる・やり玉にあがる・槍玉に挙がる・やり玉に挙がる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be made an example of; to be made a victim of; to be exposed to ridicule
- 幕が開く【まくがあく】幕があく Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start ➜ 幕を閉じる
- 寵愛昂じて尼になす【ちょうあいこうじてあまになす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to love one's child too much for their own good; to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun [literal] - obscure term
- 得る☆【える】獲る Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to get; to earn; to acquire; to procure; to gain; to secure; to attain; to obtain; to win - 獲る esp. refers to catching wild game, etc.
- to understand; to comprehend
- to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
auxiliary verb / ichidan verb / transitive:
あなたが教えてくれたことからおおいに得るところがあった。 I received great benefit from your teaching.
これらのガスは地球規模の温暖化をもたらし得る。 These gases can lead to global warming.
- 裏を返す【うらをかえす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over ➜ 裏返す
- to look at it from another perspective - usu. as 裏を返せば
- to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time
- 独走☆【どくそう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- running alone; running solo
- having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
- having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action
ヤンキースは優勝へ独走態勢を整えている。 The Yankees are running away with the pennant race.
- 露悪趣味【ろあくしゅみ】
noun:
- being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is - four character idiom
- 字【あざな】
noun:
- Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)
- nickname
- section of a village
- 寵愛昂じて尼にする【ちょうあいこうじてあまにする】寵愛こうじて尼にする Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to love one's child too much for their own good; to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun [literal] - obscure term
- 謙譲語Ｉ【けんじょうごいち】謙譲語１
noun:
- humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ
- 惚れ直す【ほれなおす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb:
- to rekindle one's love; to fall in love again (with a person one has previously been in love with) ➜ 直す
- 滔々【とうとう】滔滔 Inflection
~と adverb / ~たる adjective:
- torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
- (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
- flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times
- 沸く☆【わく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil
- to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to be in a ferment; to take place energetically
- to ferment
- to melt (of metal)
彼女はお茶を入れる前にお湯が沸くまで待った。 She waited until the water boiled before making the tea with it.
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