Results, 'possum up a gum tree
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- 五里霧中【ごりむちゅう】五里夢中irr.
~の noun / noun:
- totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air; mystified; bewildered - four character idiom
これからどう会社を経営していったらいいのか、五里霧中だ。 We're all at sea about where to take our company from here.
- 狐の子は頬白【きつねのこはつらじろ】
expression:
- the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the apple never falls far from the tree; fox pups have white cheeks [literal] - proverb - obscure term
- 話を振る【はなしをふる】話をふる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter
- お開きにする【おひらきにする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to break up (e.g. a meeting); to call it a night
- 守り立てる【もりたてる】もり立てる・守立てる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to support; to back up; to rally round
- to revive (e.g. a company); to boost (e.g. morale)
- to bring up; to raise
- 芝居を打つ【しばいをうつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to play a trick; to put up a false show; to deceive someone
- to put on a play; to present a play; to give a play - original meaning
- よじ登る【よじのぼる】攀じ登る・よじ上る・攀じ上る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
- 作り物☆【つくりもの】造り物
noun / ~の noun:
- artificial product; man-made product; imitation; fake; sham
- fiction
noun:
- decoration (e.g. for a festival)
- theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, etc.)
- crop
- チー《吃》
noun:
- forming a chow by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 碰【ポン】
- ポン《碰》 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- forming a pung by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term
- 話の穂を継ぐ【はなしのほをつぐ】話の穂をつぐ Inflection
expression / godan ~ぐ verb:
- to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation
- パンヤ
noun:
- silk cotton (esp. from the Indian silk cotton tree) - From Portuguese "panha"
- Indian silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba) ➜ パンヤの木
- ぴょこぴょこ
~と adverb:
- up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
- casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい
- 寄らば大樹の陰【よらばたいじゅのかげ】
expression:
- Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good
- 跳ねる☆【はねる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to jump; to leap; to prance; to spring up; to bound; to hop
- to break up; to close; to come to an end
- to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone) - instead of 撥ねる
- お手上げ☆【おてあげ】お手あげ・御手上げ
noun:
- being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; throwing up (one's) hands [literal]
火災で全てのコンピューターディスクが駄目になってしまった時、会社はもうお手上げの状況だった。 The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.
- 媚を売る【こびをうる】媚びを売る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
- to flatter; to butter up
- 担ぎ出す☆【かつぎだす】かつぎ出す・担ぎだす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to carry something out of a place
- to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)
- to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject); to raise (an issue); to mention
- ガールハント・ガール・ハント Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント
- こらえる《堪える・怺える》こたえる《堪える》 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with ➜ 耐える【たえる】
- to restrain; to control; to keep a check on
- to forgive; to put up with; to pardon
- 汲む☆【くむ】 Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to draw (water); to ladle; to dip up; to scoop up; to pump
- to pour (into a cup); to drink (together) ➜ 酌む【くむ】
- to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.); to sympathize with; to intuit; to understand
- to draw upon; to inherit
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