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]; mutual back-scratching - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to act lovestruck; to be fawning; to act affectionate - manga slang ➜ でれでれ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to waver; to be inconsistent; to be contradictory - obscure term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to receive too many blessings; to be excessively favoured; to be too good for

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel compassion towards; to be swayed by emotion; to be moved by

expression / ichidan verb:

• to exceed; to be even more (so); to exaggerate

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to receive favor (favour); to be much obliged to someone; to be indebted ➜ お世話になる

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to go easy on somebody; to be easygoing; to be lenient

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to get excited; to be roused (to action); to get the itch (to do) - idiom

expression:

• as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie scattered; to be strewn with; to be covered with ➜ 散り敷く

godan ~る verb:

• to grumble; to be unsettled; to grizzle

expression:

• well-known only to those in the know; be well-known but to the few; highly regarded by a select few

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

ichidan verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

noun:

• matters for investigation; matters to be examined; research agenda

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to go to bed; to be sick in bed; to be laid up

godan ~す verb:

• to pose; to be affected; to put on an air

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to close; to be over; to break up (e.g. school)
• to lose one's nerve; to feel daunted ➜ 気が引ける【きがひける】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drink away one's money; to be a sot; to get wasted
• to drink someone under the table

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to see eye to eye; to be on the same wavelength; to talk the same language

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to head towards; to be inclined to go towards; to head for a place naturally - idiom