Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 盗人上戸【ぬすびとじょうご・ぬすっとじょうご】
noun:
- person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well - four character idiom
- person who can drink much alcohol without becoming tipsy
- 花の雨【はなのあめ】
expression / noun:
- rain falling on cherry blossoms; rain at the time of the blossoming of cherry trees
- 下前【したまえ】
noun:
- part of the fabric that is tucked closest to the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 上前
- 代【だい】
noun / suffix noun:
- charge; cost; price
- generation; age; reign
- era - Geology term
- a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone) - after someone's name or title
- used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number ➜ 代表電話番号
counter:
- counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
- counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
- proxy application company - abbreviation ➜ 代理申請会社
noun:
- pronoun - used in dictionaries, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 代名詞
うちの会社はいればいる(長い時間いる)だけ残業代がもらえるから。 The longer you stay, the more overtime pay you'll get.
あの会社との取り引きは父の代から糸を引くように切れない。 Our transactions with that firm have continued unbroken since my father's generation.
20代の若い女性の中には、夏休みに海外旅行にでたいと思う人も多い。 Many young women in their 20s plan to go abroad during their summer holidays.
安倍内閣は、第90代の内閣総理大臣に指名された安倍晋三が2006年9月26日に発足させた内閣である。 The Abe Cabinet is the Cabinet inaugurated on September 26, 2006 by Shinzo Abe, who was appointed as Japan's 90th Prime Minister.
- 踏み破る【ふみやぶる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to break by stepping on; to trample; to stomp on; to stamp through
godan ~る verb:
- to walk across; to travel on foot ➜ 踏破【とうは】
- 売り出す☆【うりだす】売出す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to put on the market; to put out for sale; to put on sale; to begin selling; to market
godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:
- to become popular
クリスマスは新しいおもちゃをうりだすいい機会だ。 Christmas is a good time to market new toys.
- パシリ・ぱしり
noun:
- person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else; person who runs errands; gofer - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 使いっ走り
- モラトリアム人間【モラトリアムにんげん】
noun:
- person who has not developed emotional maturity; young person who does not want to become an adult
- ピント☆
noun:
- focus (of a lens); focal point - From Dutch "brandpunt"
- point (of a discussion, e.g. on-point, off-point)
- へちまgikun《糸瓜・天糸瓜・糸爪irr.》ヘチマ
noun:
- sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca); Egyptian cucumber; Vietnamese luffa; dishrag gourd
- loofah; loofa; vegetable sponge
- something useless - metaphorically, generally in negative sentences
- 金の亡者【かねのもうじゃ】
noun / ~の noun:
- money monger; money-happy person; person who is money-mad; money-grubber
- 子泣き爺【こなきじじい】子啼爺・子なき爺・子泣きじじい
noun:
- Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)
- 惜敗率【せきはいりつ】
noun:
- ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)
- 道筋をつける【みちすじをつける】道筋を付ける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to pave the way; to put in motion; to put on the road (to)
- 星★【ほし】
noun:
- star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
- offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
- star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
- circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
- bullseye
- one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
- small dot; spot
- point; score - Sumo term
その星は必ずしも肉眼で見えるわけではない。 We cannot necessarily see the star with the naked eye.
空には星が見えなかった。 I couldn't see any stars in the sky.
米国の国旗に50の星があります。 There are fifty stars on the American flag.
Kanji
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