noun:

• Narita divorce; divorce case of a newlywed couple breaking up upon their return to Narita Airport from their honeymoon abroad - four character idiom

noun:

• picking up a bowl with one's right hand which is already holding one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) - obscure term

expression:

• to (an extent); up to; so far as; even - more emphatic than まで ➜ 迄【まで】
• doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ... - usu. as 〜までもない
• even if ... - usu. as 〜ないまでも

noun:

• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends

~の noun / noun:

• upside-down ➜ 上下になる

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• hazy; misty; foggy; murky; fuzzy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / noun:

• hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy; feeling depressed; pent-up feelings; ill feeling - onomatopoeia

~する verb (spec.):

• to line up with; to be a member of; to rank with
• to attend; to take part in

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to line up; to stand in a line
• to rival; to match; to equal

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hunt out; to flush out; to round up
• to impress; to recruit

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to lift; to hang up; to suspend
• to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take up one's chopsticks (to begin a meal); to start to eat; to eat

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to dust; to remove dust
• to slap; to hit (with the palm)
• to use up money

noun:

• marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens) ［マーガレット］
• Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)

noun / ~する noun:

• ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself)
• going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to muster (e.g. one's courage); to call forth; to rouse up

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be enlivened; to be invigorated

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to walk about; to walk around
• to conduct oneself
• to turn up
• to brawl (in a play, etc.)

noun:

• cosmic bowling; bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights

noun:

• welling (up); gushing forth (of water); springing out; surging
• appearing (esp. suddenly)
• frothing of water (due to an advancing school of fish)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) ➜ 時間がかかる

godan ~る verb:

• to hang
• to come into view; to arrive ➜ お目にかかる
• to come under (a contract, a tax)
• to start (engines, motors)
• to attend; to deal with; to handle

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to have started to; to be on the verge of

godan ~る verb:

• to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to (come) at

godan ~る verb:

• to be fastened ➜ 鍵がかかる
• to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
• to be caught in ➜ 罠にかかる
• to get a call ➜ 電話が掛かる
• to depend on

expression / ichidan verb:

• to live up to expectations; to meet expectations

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to rear; to bring up
• to train; to teach; to educate
• to promote the growth of; to nurture; to foster; to develop

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become stuck up; to become conceited; to get cocky; to take advantage of someone's kindness or patience

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces

noun:

• area between the regular outfield wall and a lower home-run fence set up at a shorter distance from home plate - Baseball term - From English "lucky zone"

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning - idiom
• to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down