Results, one-upmanship
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- 地震雷火事親父【じしんかみなりかじおやじ】地震雷火事親爺
expression:
- one's father is more horrifying than any natural disaster; earthquakes, thunder, fires, the old man [literal] - proverb
- 迷い箸【まよいばし】
noun:
- hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 惑い箸
- 番に当たる【ばんにあたる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to have one's turn; to be on duty; to have one's inning
- 一唱三嘆【いっしょうさんたん】一倡三歎 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration - four character idiom
- 目で追う【めでおう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to follow with one's gaze; to follow with the eyes
- 我を通す【がをとおす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way
- 後ねだり【あとねだり】後強請り・跡強請り
noun:
- demanding again what one has already obtained; coaxing out of someone for a second time - obscure term ➜ 強請り
- チンイツ・チンイチ《清一》
noun:
- having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 清一色
- 気宇広闊【きうこうかつ】気宇広濶 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- magnanimous in one's attitude of mind; grand in one's idea or mind-set
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