Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 行き違い☆【いきちがい・ゆきちがい】行違い
noun:
- crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray
- difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement
- ホワイトフィンサージョンフィッシュ・ホワイトフィンサージャンフィッシュ
noun:
- whitefin surgeonfish (Acanthurus albipectoralis, species of Western Pacific tang found on the Great Barrier Reef through the Coral Sea to Tonga)
- 馬場殿【うまばどの・ばばどの・うまばのおとど】馬場の殿【うまばのおとど】
noun:
- building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds) - archaism ➜ 武徳殿
- 五月雨式【さみだれしき】さみだれ式
noun:
- off and on manner; intermittent style; dragging on and on - often 五月雨式に - four character idiom ➜ 五月雨【さみだれ】
- 口止め☆【くちどめ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy
noun:
- hush money - abbreviation ➜ 口止め料
- 何様【なにさま】何さま
noun:
- person of importance; a somebody - often used sarcastically
adverb:
- absolutely; certainly; to be sure
自分を何様だと思っているのだ、人をそんな風に見て。 Who do you think you are, to look at me like this?
- 頤使【いし】頤指 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- bossing someone around; having a person under one's control ➜ あごで使う
- 極楽蜻蛉【ごくらくとんぼ】
noun:
- happy-go-lucky fellow; an easygoing and indifferent person; a pococurante - four character idiom
- 気違いに刃物【きちがいにはもの】きちがいに刃物・気狂いに刃物
expression:
- incredible danger; (handing a) sword to an insane person [literal] - sensitive
- ワンオペレーション・ワン・オペレーション
noun:
- staffing a retail outlet with one person - From English "one operation"
- 物色☆【ぶっしょく】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; rummaging; scouring (a place) looking for (something)
- picking out; singling out
コンピューターを物色して歩いたあげく、デイヴィドより200ドル安い値段で手に入れた。 I shopped around for my computer and ended up paying $200 less than David.
- 尾ける【つける】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to hunt a spy; to put a tail on someone; to stalk - from 尾行する and 付ける
- ちょん切る【ちょんぎる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation)
- to fire (a person)
- 供奉【ぐぶ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- accompanying; being in attendance on
noun:
- inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉
- 通る☆【とおる】徹る・透る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
- to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
- to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
- to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
- to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
- to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
- to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
- to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
- to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
- to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
- to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
- to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
- to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism
suffix / godan ~る verb:
- to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb
容易に試験に通ると思う。 I expect her to pass the examination easily.
法案は間違いなく通るよ。 This bill is safe to pass.
富んでいるものが神の国に入るよりは、らくだが針の穴を通る方がもっと易しい。 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
- 腐っても鯛【くさってもたい】
expression:
- a diamond on a dunghill is still a diamond; quality is quality; an old eagle is better than a young crow; even if it's rotten, it's still sea bream [literal] - proverb
- 虎の尾を踏む【とらのおをふむ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to play with fire; to take a great risk; to step on a tiger's tail [literal] - idiom
- 取り次ぐ☆【とりつぐ】取次ぐ・取り継ぐirr.・取継ぐirr. Inflection
godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:
- to act as an agent for; to intermediate
- to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
- to convey (a message)
- 貫頭衣【かんとうい】
noun:
- simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head
- チキン☆・チッキン Inflection
noun / adjectival noun:
- chicken
- person who scares easily; person who lacks courage
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