Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- 撥鬢【ばちびん】
noun:
- Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back) - archaism
- 魚心あれば水心あり【うおこころあればみずこころあり】魚心有れば水心有り
expression:
- if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心
- 欲の熊鷹股裂くる【よくのくまたかまたさくる】
expression:
- avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb
- 四姓【しせい】
noun:
- the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
- varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ
- 弱肉強食☆【じゃくにくきょうしょく】
noun:
- survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; the weak are meat the strong do eat [literal] - four character idiom
弱肉強食。 The weak are food for the strong.
- ところで☆《所で》
conjunction:
- by the way; incidentally
- even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how) - after the plain past form of a verb
「ところでよ、そのおめーのおとうさんはどこにいんのさ?」「横転したトラックの下なんよ。」 "By the way, where's your old man?" "Under that over-turned truck."
- ば☆
particle:
- if ... then; when
- and - often ...も...ば...も...
- why don't you...?
- the more (one does something) - often ...ば...ほど
- because; since - archaism
- 浮世の習い【うきよのならい】
expression / noun:
- the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are ➜ 浮世
- くたばる☆ Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to croak - colloquialism
- to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered
- 三人寄れば文殊の知恵【さんにんよればもんじゅのちえ】三人よれば文殊の知恵
expression:
- two heads are better than one; if three people gather; the wisdom of Manjushri [literal] - proverb ➜ 文殊
- バカの壁【バカのかべ】馬鹿の壁【ばかのかべ】
expression:
- the phenomenon that perfect reasoning fails if an idiot cannot understand it
- まにまに《随に・随意にirr.》
adverb:
- at the mercy of (e.g. wind, waves); (act) as one is told (by) - in form 〜のまにまに ➜ ままに
- 風を切る【かぜをきる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to go flying along; to move fast (against the wind)
- 吹き流す【ふきながす】吹流す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to blow along (in the wind); to set adrift ➜ 吹き流し
- 大死一番【だいしいちばん・たいしいちばん】 Inflection
noun / adverbial noun / ~する noun:
- exerting oneself to the utmost, prepared to die if necessary - four character idiom
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