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- スクイズ☆ Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- squeeze (play) - Baseball term
- (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward
- 仙人☆【せんにん】
noun:
- immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
- one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men
世捨て人となり仙人のように山中をさまよい自給自足で誰とも接触せず野垂れ死にをしない方法とは絶対ある。 There is definitely a way to quit the world and live like an hermit in the mountains, being self-sufficient and without contact with anybody while not dying like a dog.
- 地上げ【じあげ】地揚げ Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking
- raising the ground level (with fill)
- ものづくり《物作り・もの作り・物づくり・物造り》モノづくり《モノ作り》ものつくり《物作り・もの作り・物造り》モノつくり《モノ作り》
noun:
- manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
- making New-Year's decorations
- preparing fields; farming; farmer
「ソフトウェア開発」は「モノ作り」ではない。 "Software development" isn't "manufacture".
- 袋棚【ふくろだな】
noun:
- tea ceremony stand with an enclosed shelf (invented by Takeno Jouou)
- small cupboard or closed shelf on the side of a tokonoma ➜ 袋戸棚
- 割れ窓理論【われまどりろん】
noun:
- broken windows theory; criminological theory stating that serious crime can be prevented by maintaining the good physical condition of an urban environment
- 世界四大文明【せかいよんだいぶんめい】
noun:
- the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
- 四大文明【よんだいぶんめい】
noun:
- the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
- 五大老【ごたいろう】
noun:
- Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age) ➜ 五奉行
- 末期養子【まつごようし】
noun:
- deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom
- 菩提を弔う【ぼだいをとむらう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras - Buddhism term
- 継続審査【けいぞくしんさ】
noun:
- carrying over a bill from one Diet session to the next, being deliberated by a committee in the interim
- 盛り塩【もりじお・もりしお】盛塩
noun:
- placing salt by the entrance to one's establishment to bring good luck; such piles of salt
- 定年離婚【ていねんりこん】
noun:
- divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism
- 選日【せんじつ】
noun:
- selecting an auspicious date by looking at the astrological information on the calendar; date selected in such a manner
- 親トモ【おやトモ】
noun:
- keitai-mail friend (someone one keeps in touch with only by typing messages with one's thumb) - obscure term - slang ➜ 親指
- 眼鏡にかなう【めがねにかなう】眼鏡に適う・眼鏡に叶う Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to win the favour of (favor); to be acknowledged (e.g. by a superior); to measure up to
- とばっちり・とばしり・とばちり《迸り・逬り》
noun:
- splash; spray
- chance blow; by-blow; getting dragged into (a quarrel, etc.); getting mixed up in
- 貸しはがし【かしはがし】貸し剥がし・貸し剥し・貸し剝がし・貸し剝し
noun:
- withdrawal of loan credit (e.g. by a bank); retraction of credit; insistence on repayment
- 水機関【みずからくり】水絡繰り・水絡繰irr.
noun:
- puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)
- すぐそこ
adverb / ~の noun:
- close by; right there; short distance away; a hop, skip and jump away
- at once; as soon as possible; immediately
- ガテン
noun:
- job seeker magazine for manual labourers published by Recruit Inc. (1991-2009) - from 合点
- physical work
- physical workers; blue-collar workers
- サンキュー事故【サンキューじこ】
noun:
- traffic accident caused by a driver thanking another driver for letting him go first at a junction
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