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けいこくじあいkeikokujiai

noun:

  • match where the umpire disqualifies the coach and one player after the player has done something dangerous (such as hit by pitch; to prevent retaliation by the opposing team) - Baseball term
ごちそうさまでしたgochisousamadeshita

expression:

  • thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal
とらのおをふむtoranoowofumu Inflection

expression / godan ~む verb:

  • to play with fire; to take a great risk; to step on a tiger's tail [literal] - idiom
ぐはんしょうねんguhanshounen

noun:

  • juvenile likely to commit a crime; juvenile with a criminal bent; pre-delinquent juvenile; status offender
かえりうちkaeriuchi

noun:

  • killing a would-be avenger
  • having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game
ぶっこみbukkomiブッコミBUKKOMI

noun:

かかずりあうkakazuriau Inflection

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

  • to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter) - colloquialism 係う【かかずらう】
  • to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality)
  • to take part (in some work); to hang about; to bother (someone)
かけkake

noun:

noun / suffix noun:

  • proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price)

suffix:

  • in the midst of - after a -masu stem
  • rest; rack; hanger - after a noun

長くnagakuつき合うtsukiauにはniha掛けkakeha禁物kinmotsu Short accounts make long friends.

kareha上着uwagiwoコートKOOTO掛けkakeniかけたkaketa He hung his coat on a hook.

じょうづめjouzume Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • permanent staff; permanent employee; service for a fixed period of time - obscure term

noun:

  • (Edo era) a daimyo or feudal retainer who lived and/or served in Edo for a fixed period of time - archaism
つめかけるtsumekakeru Inflection

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

  • to crowd (a house); to throng to (a door)
そんになるsonninaru Inflection

expression / godan ~る verb:

  • to prove a loss; to be a disadvantage; to not pay
きょうだんにたつkyoudannitatsu Inflection

expression / godan ~つ verb:

  • to stand on a podium
  • to teach; to be a teacher
かんのうkannou

noun:

  • viewing noh; seeing a noh play; going to a noh theater
じゅうじかをせおうjuujikawoseou Inflection

expression / godan ~う verb:

  • to have a cross to bear; to carry a heavy burden - idiom
しぜんしょうめつshizenshoumetsu Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end
なるとnaruto

noun:

  • strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
  • kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation 鳴門巻き
  • cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
  • Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref 鳴門
  • Naruto Strait 鳴門 - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
  • Naruto wakame 鳴門 - abbreviation 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】
うおこころあればみずこころありuokokoroarebamizukokoroari

expression:

  • if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb 魚心あれば水心
かかずらうkakazurau Inflection

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

  • to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter)
  • to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality)
  • to take part (in some work); to hang about; to bother (someone)
だぶだぶdabudabuダブダブDABUDABU Inflection

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

  • flabby; saggy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

  • sloshing; slopping; overflowing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

  • plenty (of pouring a liquid); drowning (e.g. in a sauce) - onomatopoeia
すれすれsuresure Inflection

adjectival noun / noun:

  • grazing; skimming; almost touching; passing within inches; being within a whisker; shaving close
  • barely; just; narrowly; by a slim margin

bokuha終電shuudenniすれすれsuresurenoところtokorode間に合ったmaniatta I was just in time for the last train.

さしいれsashiire Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • insertion; letter drop
  • things sent to a prisoner
  • supply of provisions, refreshments, etc. to someone carrying out a task
のぞきnozoki

noun / ~の noun:

  • peep; peeping

noun:

  • peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures - abbreviation 覗き機関

カーテンKAATENwo閉めshimete! 向かいmukainoienohitoha覗きnozokimanandaからkara Close the curtains! It's because the person living in the house across the street is a voyeur.

ほんぜんhonzen

noun:

  • main course (of a formal meal)
  • extremely high-grade Japanese meal served all at once (on a table with legs) - abbreviation 本膳料理
えほうまいりehoumairiirr.

noun:

  • New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction
便びんじょうしょうほうbinjoushouhou

noun:

  • piggybacking marketing; the method of making sales by jumping on a bandwagon (like that of a boom, popularity, disaster, etc.) - four character idiom

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