Results, the nail which sticks out gets hammered down
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- 本領安堵【ほんりょうあんど】
noun:
- recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom
- 買い出し☆【かいだし】買出し
noun:
- going out to shop; going shopping
- buying in quantity; buying wholesale; bulk purchasing
- 巻き起こる【まきおこる】巻き起る・捲き起る・捲き起こる・巻起こる・巻起る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst
- 業法【ぎょうほう】
noun:
- industry law; law regulating a certain industry
- work one is obligated to carry out - archaism
- 峠を越す【とうげをこす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom
- to cross a pass - orig. meaning
- とどのつまり《鯔のつまり・鯔の詰まり・とどの詰まり》
expression / adverb:
- in the end; after all is said and done; at the striped mullet's ultimate maturity (when the striped mullet is fully grown) [literal] ➜ 鯔【とど】
その説明に対する彼の答はとどのつまり意味をなさない。 His explanation of the problem adds up to nonsense.
- 峠を越える【とうげをこえる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
- to cross a pass - orig. meaning
- 手垢のついた【てあかのついた】手垢の付いた・手あかのついた・手あかの付いた
expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:
- thumb-marked; well-used; well-thumbed; well-handled
- worn-out (e.g. joke); stale; hackneyed
- 見破る☆【みやぶる】看破る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
- 言い逃れる【いいのがれる】言逃れる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade
- 唸り出す【うなりだす】唸りだす・うなり出す Inflection
godan ~す verb:
- to let out a roar (hum, groan, moan); to produce a loud noise
- 意生身【いしょうしん】
noun:
- mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness - Buddhism term
- 探りを入れる【さぐりをいれる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate
- 風俗画風【ふうぞくがふう】
noun:
- (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom
- 一粒万倍【いちりゅうまんばい】
expression:
- A single seed can eventually produce a great harvest; Even the smallest beginning can generate a greatest profit; Watch the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves - four character idiom
- 展開★【てんかい】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- development; evolution; progressing; unfolding; (plot) twist
- expansion; spreading out; extending; deployment; building up
- expansion - Mathematics term
- extraction (e.g. files); decompression; unpacking - IT term
こんな展開を誰が予想したかしら。 Who'd have thought this is how the pieces fit?
フロイトは、親子間の愛憎関係をエディプス・コンプレックスとして展開しました。 Freud developed the love-hate relationship between parents and child as the Oedipus complex.
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