Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- ペーパードライバー・ペーパードライバ・ペーパー・ドライバー・ペーパー・ドライバ
noun:
- person who has a driving licence but little or no experience actually driving (license) - From English "paper driver"
- 赤手空拳【せきしゅくうけん】
noun:
- barehanded; having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something) - four character idiom
- 十月十日【とつきとおか】
noun:
- babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day
- normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)
- 黙殺☆【もくさつ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- ignoring; disregarding; taking no notice of; refusing to comment on; turning a deaf ear to
女性の声が黙殺され、女性の希望は却下されていたその当時、彼女は女性が立ち上がり、声を上げ、選挙権を獲得するのを見ながら生きてきた。 At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach out for the ballot.
- 墓標☆【ぼひょう・はかじるし】墓表【ぼひょう】
noun:
- grave marker; gravestone; headstone
- writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.) [ぼひょう]
- 親子丼【おやこどん・おやこどんぶり】
noun:
- oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
- sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang
- 収骨【しゅうこつ】
noun:
- collecting bones and remains (e.g. on a battlefield)
- putting cremated remains in an urn
- バリ3【バリさん】バリ三
noun:
- full signal strength (on a cellphone); good cellphone reception; three bars [literal] - from バリバリ三本 - colloquialism
- 引く☆【ひく】曳く・牽く Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to pull; to tug; to lead (e.g. a horse)
- to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest) ➜ 惹く【ひく】・注意を引く
- to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to pull in
- to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
- to draw (a line, plan, etc.) ➜ 図面を引く
- to catch (a cold) ➜ 風邪を引く
- to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument) ➜ 弾く【ひく】
- to look up (e.g. a dictionary); to consult ➜ 辞書を引く
- to haul; to pull (vehicles) - esp. 牽く
- to subtract; to deduct
- to recede; to ebb; to fade
- to be descend from; to inherit (a characteristic)
- to quote; to cite; to raise (as evidence)
- to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.); to install (e.g. a telephone); to supply (e.g. water)
- to hold (e.g. a note)
- to apply (e.g. lipstick); to oil (e.g. a pan); to wax (e.g. a floor)
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
あんな本みたらフツーの女は引くもんな! Obviously a normal woman would lose interest if she saw a book like that!
定規は直線を引くのに役立つ。 A ruler helps one to draw a straight line.
ジョンはギターを引くことができません。 John can't play the guitar.
初めての単語を辞書でひくのはよい習慣である。 It is a good habit to look up new words in a dictionary.
10から2を引くと、8残る。 Two from ten leaves eight.
はれが引くまで何日くらいかかりますか。 How many days will it take until the swelling goes down?
- 媚びる【こびる】媚るirr. Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to flatter; to curry favor with; to curry favour with; to fawn on; to butter up to
- to flirt with (woman with a man); to make eyes at (a man)
- 相手にする【あいてにする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- 止まる☆【とまる】留まる☆・停まる・駐まる・止る・留る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to stop (moving); to come to a stop
- to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to cease; to be stopped; to be suspended
- to alight; to perch on
そして、電車はキーッという音を立てて止まった。 Then, the train screeched to a halt.
十分な情報を受け取ることができなかったという理由も一部にはあって、ハーパーの描写は不完全なものにとどまっている。 Partly because he could not receive enough information, Harper's description remains imperfect.
あの木の枝に数羽の鳥がとまっている。 Some birds are sitting on the branch of that tree.
- ダフる Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to duff (golf); to sclaff; to hit the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term ➜ ダフ
- 心を動かす【こころをうごかす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)
- ボス☆
noun:
- boss; leader; head
- difficult enemy in a video game, usu. found at the end of a level or game
- 一番太鼓【いちばんだいこ】
noun:
- beating of a drum as a signal to announce the opening (beginning) of an event (theatrical performance, festival, etc.)
- 千里も一里【せんりもいちり】
expression:
- a journey of a thousand miles feels like only one mile (when going to see the one you love) - proverb
- 連座☆【れんざ】連坐 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- implication (in a crime); involvement
- sitting in a row (in the same seat) - archaism
- 一発★【いっぱつ】1発
noun:
- shot; charge; explosion
- blow; punch
- home run - Baseball term
noun / adverbial noun:
- try; attempt
noun:
- win on the first go-around after calling riichi - Mahjong term
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