Results, the bow-wow theory
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- 三日夜の餅【みかよのもち】三日夜の餠old
noun:
- Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】
- 名誉白人【めいよはくじん】
noun:
- honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites
- プレミアムフライデー・プレミアム・フライデー
noun:
- Premium Friday; government-backed campaign to allow workers to go home early the last Friday of the month - From English
- 上☆【じょう】
suffix noun:
- from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
- aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above
noun:
noun / prefix:
- superior quality; best; top; high class
- going up
- governmental; imperial
- presenting; showing
prefix:
- ana- (medical, biol.)
会社は税金上の目的で本社所在地を香港に移した。 The company moved its corporate domicile to Hong Kong for tax purposes.
あなたには禍の前兆である壁上の書きものが読めるかもしれないが、私にはちんぷんかんぷんだ。 You may be able to read the handwriting on the wall, but it is Greek to me.
理論上、理論と実行の間には何の違いもないが、実際上違いはあるものだ。 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
- 冷や飯食い【ひやめしくい・ひやめしぐい】冷飯食い
noun:
- hanger-on; dependent
- someone who is received coldly
- third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate) - familiar language
- 先手☆【せんて】
noun:
- first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move
- forestalling; (seizing the) initiative ➜ 後手
- 踏み外す【ふみはずす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to miss one's footing
- to be off the right track; to be on the wrong path
- 差し違える【さしちがえる】差違える Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to misplace; to put in the wrong place
- to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term
- 一からやり直す【いちからやりなおす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again
- 同じ穴のムジナ【おなじあなのムジナ】同じ穴の狢【おなじあなのむじな】
expression:
- (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; badgers of the same hole [literal] - idiom
- なんでやねん
expression:
- what the hell; what the fuck; what are you going on about; you've got to be kidding - Kansai dialect
- 今年中に【ことしじゅうに・ことしちゅうに】
expression / adverb:
- by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year
- に向けて☆【にむけて】
expression:
- towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic) ➜ 向ける
- 軌を一にする【きをいつにする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to concur; to be the same (thought, opinion, etc.); to have the same way of doing
- ここ一番【ここいちばん】此処一番
expression / noun:
- the crucial moment; the moment of truth; do-or-die situation; crucial juncture; crucial stage
- 時世時節【ときよじせつ】
noun:
- times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom
- 文部省美術展覧会【もんぶしょうびじゅつてんらんかい】
noun:
- Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) ➜ 文展【ぶんてん】
- 穴場☆【あなば】
noun:
- little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept-secret place; hole-in-the-wall
- 避暑地【ひしょち】
noun:
- place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑
- はしぼそきつつき《嘴細啄木鳥》ハシボソキツツキ
noun:
- northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)
- 狄【てき】
noun:
- Di people; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the north - derogatory term ➜ 北狄
- 中等教育学校【ちゅうとうきょういくがっこう】
noun:
- six-year secondary school (type of school introduced in the 1998 revision of the Japanese School Education Law)
- プロパー☆ Inflection
adjectival noun:
- proper
noun:
- propagandist; propaganda - abbreviation
- full time (staff); career (job title) (e.g. someone who has worked in the same area from the start)
- regular price; net price
- 世慣れる【よなれる】世馴れる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated
- 文展【ぶんてん】
noun:
- Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) - abbreviation ➜ 文部省美術展覧会【もんぶしょうびじゅつてんらんかい】
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