expression / noun:

• one's last hope; one's only hope; the last hope

expression:

• something; something or other; so-and-so

adverb:

• somehow; anyhow; one way or another

ichidan verb:

• to put someone to work; to make someone work ➜ 働かす
• to use; to apply; to exert; to exercise (restraint, one's imagination, one's brain, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to serve out one's apprenticeship; to serve out one's time

noun:

• one's favorite son-in-law; one's favourite son-in-law

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to put out one's tongue; to stick out one's tongue

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have one's wish realized; to have one's wish realised

noun:

• hands behind one's back; hands tied behind one's back
• behind (e.g. someone); rear; back
• appearance from behind ➜ 後ろ姿

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train)
• to change one's mind; to move on to (e.g. a new love interest); to change methods; to change one's way of thinking

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy; to comply with; to live up to ➜ 沿う
• to accompany; to go with; to stay by one's side
• to associate with (someone); to mix with
• to marry; to wed - esp. 添う
• to be added - esp. 添う

noun:

• run-down shabby house
• rag and scrap merchant - archaism

noun:

• knee touch down - Sumo term
• posture with knees and toes on the floor

expression:

• time waits for no-one; time and tide stay for no man - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk on and on; to talk one's head off

expression:

• what chances to one man may happen to all; what happens to one today may happen to another tomorrow; misfortunes can happen to anyone - proverb

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】・立つ鳥跡を濁さず

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to suddenly assume an antagonistic attitude; to suddenly become defiant; to turn aggressive (in one's manner)
• to moon; to point one's naked buttocks at someone; to give somebody the brown-eye

expression:

• Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning) - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin); to sag (ceiling)
• to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to eat up (completely)
• to put down (a rebellion); to suppress; to subjugate
• to make flat; to level out - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run at full speed; to run and run
• to try one's hardest

expression:

• playing while the cat is away; taking a break while the boss is out; doing what one wants when one is (finally) alone; relaxing while the demon is out [literal] - idiom ➜ 洗濯

noun:

• the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings) - archaism
• one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)