Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 差し手☆【さして】
noun:
- slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt - Sumo term
- 後夜祭【こうやさい】
noun:
- an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭
- お白州【おしらす】お白洲・御白州・御白洲
noun:
- court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism
- 開口音【かいこうおん】
noun:
- (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
- (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds
- 性☆【せい】
noun:
- nature (of a person)
- sex
- gender
suffix:
- -ty; -ity; -ness; -cy - indicating quality or condition
そんなことが気になってしまうのが人の性ですね・・・。 It is human nature to be bugged by such things.
最近の漫画は暴力や性の描写が多すぎる。 Recent comics have too many violent and sexual scenes.
シンナーなどの常習性のある物をしてると言う事は、更正する可能性が低いと思います。 I think that, as he's using addictive substances like thinner, the chance of rehabilitation is low.
- 容姿☆【ようし】
noun:
- (physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure
彼女は自分の容姿については、思い違いはしていなかった。 She had no illusions about her looks.
- じゃじゃ馬【じゃじゃうま】
noun:
- restive horse
- unmanageable person (esp. a woman); shrew; stubborn tomboy - idiom
- 土左衛門【どざえもん】
noun:
- drowned body of a person (after sumo wrestler Narusegawa Dozaemon) - four character idiom
- 小人閑居【しょうじんかんきょ】
expression:
- a small-minded person being idle (tends to do evil) - proverb ➜ 小人閑居して不善をなす
- 武徳殿【ぶとくでん】
noun:
- building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. ➜ 大内裏
- martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)
- 煙管乗車【キセルじょうしゃ】キセル乗車 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り
- 延命☆【えんめい・えんみょうobs.】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- keeping alive longer; prolonging life; life extension; life-support
- 陣取り☆【じんとり】
noun:
- children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base
- taking a place; securing a position
- 初値【はつね】
noun:
- first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
- initial share price during a public offering
- オウム真理教【オウムしんりきょう】アウム真理教【アウムしんりきょうirr.】
noun:
- Aum Shinrikyo; Japanese religious group responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- コテ
noun:
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