Results, one-upmanship
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- へたる Inflection
godan ~る verb:
- ワンオペレーション・ワン・オペレーション
noun:
- staffing a retail outlet with one person - From English "one operation"
- 方違い【かたたがい】
noun:
- setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり
- 役を干される【やくをほされる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be deprived of one's role; to have one's livelihood taken away
- 色チ買い【いろチがい】色ち買い【いろちがい】イロチ買い【イロチがい】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- buying more than one of the same item in different colors (colours) - slang ➜ イロチ
- その気【そのき】
expression / noun:
- what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
- 身分相応【みぶんそうおう】 Inflection
noun / adjectival noun:
- appropriate to one's lot in life; within one's means; fitting to one's position; suitable to one's social status - four character idiom
- 髪を直す【かみをなおす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to fix one's hair (hairdo) (esp. if disheveled); to straighten one's hair; to make an adjustment to one's hair; to do (up) one's hair
- 指笛【ゆびぶえ】
noun:
- whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing
- 身の程知らず【みのほどしらず】
expression / noun / ~の noun:
- not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is
- 言わんとする【いわんとする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- (what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
その教授は、私のいわんとすることが理解できなかった。 The professor was unable to comprehend what I meant.
- 刺を通ずる【しをつうずる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):
- to present one's card - also 刺を通じる - obscure term
- 初日を出す【しょにちをだす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term
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