Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 腕利き【うできき】腕きき Inflection
~の noun / adjectival noun:
- able; capable; competent
noun:
- able person; person of ability
- 腕こき【うでこき】腕扱き Inflection
~の noun / adjectival noun:
- able; capable; competent ➜ 腕利き【うできき】
noun:
- able person; person of ability ➜ 腕利き【うできき】
- 腕っこき【うでっこき】腕っ扱き Inflection
~の noun / adjectival noun:
- able; capable; competent ➜ 腕利き【うできき】
noun:
- able person; person of ability ➜ 腕利き【うできき】
- 見下ろす☆【みおろす】見おろす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on
- to despise; to look down on ➜ 見下す
ふと通りに目をやると、行き交う人の中に、１人立ち止まり俺を見下ろす者がいた。 As I glanced at the street there was somebody looking down at me in the middle of those walking past each other.
- なんて目じゃない【なんてめじゃない】
expression:
- it's not a problem; it's not a big deal; (person or thing) can be easily beaten or bettered (by one) ➜ 目じゃない
- 鯱【しゃちほこ・しゃっちょこ・さちほこ】鯱鉾【しゃちほこ】
noun:
- mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)
- オーバードクター・オーバー・ドクター
noun:
- unemployed person with a PhD - From English "over doctor"
- postdoctoral fellow; postdoc
- ともあろうもの
expression:
- of all people (expression showing surprise at a high standing person's misbehavior)
- 悪人は畳の上では死ねない【あくにんはたたみのうえではしねない】
expression:
- a bad person does not deserve to die in his own bed - proverb
- お姫様抱っこ【おひめさまだっこ】お姫様だっこ・お姫さま抱っこ・お姫さまだっこ・御姫様抱っこ・御姫様だっこ Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- carrying a person in one's arms - colloquialism ➜ 横抱き
- 枯木寒巌【こぼくかんがん】
expression / noun:
- withered trees and frozen rocks; "a person that is hard to approach" [figurative]
- 蹴り飛ばす【けりとばす】けり飛ばす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)
- 神籬【ひもろぎ・ひぼろぎ・ひもろき・ひぼろき】
noun:
- primitive shrine (originally a swath of sacred land surrounded by evergreens; later a decorated sakaki branch on an eight-legged table) - archaism
- 従う☆【したがう】随う・順う・遵う・從うold・隨うold Inflection
godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:
- to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow; to observe; to conform to; to yield to
- to follow (a person); to accompany; to go with
- to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
- to serve (as); to engage in (work)
善良な市民は法律に従う。 A good citizen obeys the laws.
熱力学の背後には、第１巻で学んだ力学の法則にしたがう原子や分子の運動があります。 Behind thermodynamics lie the movements of atoms and molecules following the laws of motion learned in the first volume.
- 加槓【かカン】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓
- 割り込み☆【わりこみ】割込み・割込irr.
noun:
- queue jumping; breaking into a line; muscling in on; wedging oneself in; interruption; sharing a theater box (theatre)
- interrupt - IT term
- 大穴☆【おおあな】
noun:
- large hole
- great deficit; heavy losses
- big and unexpected winnings; a killing (e.g. on a race)
- dark horse (horse racing)
仮に競馬でたまたま大穴を当てたとしましょう。 Let's suppose you happen to strike it rich at the races.
- 尻尾を掴む【しっぽをつかむ】尻尾をつかむ・しっぽを掴む Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; to have evidence; to get a lead - idiom
- to grab by the tail [literal]
- 二枚看板【にまいかんばん】
noun:
- the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions) - four character idiom
Kanji
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