Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper

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ばちびんbachibin

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
かふうkafuuいえかぜiekaze

noun:

  • family tradition
  • wind blowing from the direction of one's home いえかぜ - archaism
ひらめきhirameki

noun:

  • flair; flash
  • insight
  • waving (e.g. of a flag in the wind)
へたするとhetasuruto

expression:

  • if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well
へたをするとhetawosuruto

expression:

  • if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well
うおこころあればみずこころありuokokoroarebamizukokoroari

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
よくのくまたかまたさくるyokunokumatakamatasakuru

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
しせいshisei

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
サスツルギSASUTSURUGI

noun:

  • sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind
じゃくにくきょうしょくjakunikukyoushoku

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jakunikukyoushoku The weak are food for the strong.

ところでtokorode

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tokorodeyoそのsonoおめーome-noおとうさんotousanhaどこdokoniいんinnosa?」「横転outenしたshitaトラックTORAKKUnoshimonanyo。」 "By the way, where's your old man?" "Under that over-turned truck."

ba

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
くりあがりkuriagari

noun:

  • increase in digit (e.g. if we add 2 to the number 9)
ごとしgotoshi

auxiliary verb:

  • like; as if; the same as 如き
ごとくgotoku

adverb:

  • like; as if; the same as 如し
ごときgotoki

noun / suffix:

うきよのならいukiyononarai

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kutabaru 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
さんにんよればもんじゅのちえsannin'yorebamonjunochie

expression:

  • two heads are better than one; if three people gather; the wisdom of Manjushri [literal] - proverb 文殊
バカのかべBAKAnokabe鹿ばかのかべbakanokabe

expression:

  • the phenomenon that perfect reasoning fails if an idiot cannot understand it
まにまにmanimaniirr.

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
かぜをきるkazewokiru Inflection

expression / godan ~る verb:

  • to go flying along; to move fast (against the wind)
ふきながすfukinagasu Inflection

godan ~す verb / transitive:

だいしいちばんdaishiichibanたいしいちばんtaishiichiban Inflection

noun / adverbial noun / ~する noun:

  • exerting oneself to the utmost, prepared to die if necessary - four character idiom
ごこうごみんgokougomin

noun:

  • land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

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