expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Heike biwa; Heike lute; biwa with 4 strings and 5 frets, esp. for accompanying the Heike Monogatari ➜ 琵琶
• chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to remove one's shirt thus revealing the skin; to remove the upper part of one's garments
• to work with great effort ➜ 片肌脱ぐ・一肌脱ぐ

noun:

• vine; bine; tendril; runner
• bow; temple arm; sidepiece; lug arm; earpiece; part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear
• connections; contacts; influence; financial supporter

noun:

• ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus, species of monitor lizard found throughout the arid northern regions of Australia); spiny-tailed monitor ➜ リッジテールモニター

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of the cicadas - onomatopoeia ➜ みんみん蝉【みんみんぜみ】

noun:

• mock Buddhist sutra; type of fast-paced humorous singing mimicking the chanting of a Buddhist sutra, usually with lyrics satirizing current events; ahodarakyō - pun on あほだら and 陀羅尼経 ➜ あほだら

noun:

• reserves (esp. troops); reserve army
• potential members of some group (e.g. the elderly); people at risk (e.g. of a medical condition); wannabees

noun / ~する noun:

• combining the working parts of two or more broken machines to make one functioning machine
• manufacturing one part out of multiple different parts

noun:

• arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet
• bracelet
• leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword
• hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make the sign of the cross; to bless oneself; to cross oneself

noun / ~する noun:

• finishing (a race); running the whole distance; reaching the goal; staying the course

noun:

• restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend - four character idiom

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

conjunction:

• if one were to speak of ..., then certainly; if it were the case that ..., then certainly; if it were a ..., then certainly; phrase used to indicate the inevitability of what follows it (based on what precedes it) ➜ 言う・言う
• so that means (when used in sentence-initial position)

noun:

• one copy (of a document); one letter
• one-way traffic - abbreviation ➜ 一方通行
• pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9) - sometimes written イッツー - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 一気通貫【いっきつうかん】

noun:

• the number of people
• many people; a large number of people

noun:

• figure eight; figure of eight
• shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight ［八の字］

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit - onomatopoeia
• irritatedly; impatiently - onomatopoeia
• scorchingly (of the sun) - onomatopoeia
• sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil) - onomatopoeia
• sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc. - onomatopoeia
• oozing out (oil, sweat, etc.); seeping out - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose
• tossing about (a ship)

noun:

• the true, the good, and the beautiful

noun:

• the people; the public; the world

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter