Results, the nail which sticks out gets hammered down
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- 鳴りを潜める【なりをひそめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to quieten down; to fall silent
- to lay low; to keep a low profile
- ぶっ切る【ぶっきる】打っ切る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to violently cut something apart; to hack down; to chop; to cut off
- 漏れ落ちる【もれおちる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to leak down
- to be omitted; to be missing
- 狭き門より入れ【せまきもんよりいれ】
expression:
- enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate - from Matthew 7:13 - proverb
- 煮詰める☆【につめる】煮つめる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.)
- to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
- 屈する☆【くっする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:
- to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink
~する verb (spec.) / transitive:
- to bend (knee, etc.)
- to subdue; to overpower
~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:
- to feel down - archaism
その要求に屈するな。 Do not give in to those demands.
彼はなかなか権威に屈するような男ではない。 He is the last man to submit to authority.
- 開ける☆【ひらける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to become clear (of a road, visibility, etc.); to open up
- to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better
- to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to modernize; to grow; to advance (of knowledge, ideas, etc.)
- to be sensible; to be understanding; to be enlightened
- to open (of a new road, railway, etc.); to be opened to traffic
- to become populous; to become densely built; to become bustling
道は必ず開けてゆく。 There will be an answer.
そうすればやがて運が開けるでしょう。 And soon your luck will turn for the better.
- 寝起き☆【ねおき】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- lying down and getting up
- waking; getting up
- living (with); staying (with)
- 祖霊【それい】
noun:
- ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
- ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
- 栃麺棒【とちめんぼう】
noun:
- rolling pin for making horse chestnut noodles
- hurry; haste; comparison to someone making horse chestnut noodles which requires great haste
- 柳に雪折れなし【やなぎにゆきおれなし】柳に雪折れ無し
expression:
- the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb
- 良禽は木を択んで棲む【りょうきんはきをえらんですむ】
expression:
- a wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost [literal] - proverb
- 屈す【くっす・くす】
~す verb (precursor to modern する) / intransitive verb:
- to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink [くっす] - archaism ➜ 屈する【くっする】
~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:
- to bend (knee, etc.) [くっす] - archaism ➜ 屈する【くっする】
- to subdue; to overpower [くっす] - archaism ➜ 屈する【くっする】
~す verb (precursor to modern する) / intransitive verb:
- to feel down - archaism ➜ 屈する【くっする】
- 仏種【ぶっしゅ】佛種
noun:
- seed of Buddhahood - Buddhism term
- something that makes it possible to attain Buddhahood
- teaching of Buddha which make it possible to be enlightened
- みこしを据える【みこしをすえる】御輿を据える Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair); to settle oneself down; to plant oneself
- 船出☆【ふなで】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- setting sail; putting out to sea
- starting anew; embarking on something new - idiom
彼らは来週の月曜日にボンベイに向けて船出する。 They will sail for Bombay next Monday.
- 狂い【くるい】
noun:
- madness; insanity
- irregularity; deviation; being out of order
suffix noun / noun:
- fanaticism; fanatic; enthusiast; nut - usu. pronounced ぐるい as a suffix
- さかさまごと《逆様事・逆さま事・倒事》
noun:
- child dying before parents - obscure term
- occurrence out of sequence; wrong order - orig. meaning - obscure term
- 取ってつけたよう【とってつけたよう】取って付けたよう・取って付けた様 Inflection
expression / adjectival noun:
- unnatural; out of place; forced or faked (e.g. expression)
- 一本化【いっぽんか】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- unification; centralization; integration; drawing things together; working out a common policy; consolidation
- 突兀【とっこつ】 Inflection
~たる adjective / ~と adverb:
- lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out; jutting upward
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