Results, the bow-wow theory
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- 厄負け【やくまけ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- victimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year
- 年度末【ねんどまつ】
noun:
- end of the fiscal year; end of the school year
自動車の売れ行きは年度末に後退しました。 Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.
- 波に乗る【なみにのる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to go with the flow; to go with the times - idiom
- 滔々【とうとう】滔滔 Inflection
~と adverb / ~たる adjective:
- torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
- (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
- flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times
- 新聞辞令【しんぶんじれい】
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
- 脂が乗る【あぶらがのる】 Inflection
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
- 位☆【くらい】
adverb / suffix:
- throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat - orig. from 座居, meaning "seat"
- government position; court rank ➜ 位階
- social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung
noun:
あなたはお母さんに1ヶ月に何回位手紙を書きますか。 How many times a month do you write a letter to your mother?
5814を千の位に四捨五入すれば何になりますか。 What's 5,814 rounded to the nearest thousand?
- 東夷【あずまえびす・とうい】
noun:
- warrior from the eastern parts of Japan - derogatory term - archaism - Kantō dialect
- eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China) [とうい]
- ボタンを掛け違える【ボタンをかけちがえる】ボタンをかけ違える Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to button up wrong; to start from the wrong button
- to bungle up the order - idiom
- 蜀江の錦【しょっこうのにしき】
noun:
- type of red brocade originally from the ancient Chinese country of Shu and passed on in Japan
- type of brocade made in Sichuan during the Ming period
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