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満願成就【まんがんじょうじゅmanganjouju】 Inflection: noun / ~する noun:
fulfilment of a vow; one's earnest prayer being answered - four character idiom
相対する【あいたいするaitaisuru】 Inflection: ~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:
to face each other; to be opposite one another
to be in opposition; to conflict
目見【まみmami】: noun:
look; one's eyes - archaism
食い逸れ【くいはぐれkuihagure】: noun:
missing a meal; losing means to make one's livelihood
薹が立つ【とうがたつtougatatsu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~つ verb:
to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth
一銭を笑う者は一銭に泣く【いっせんをわらうものはいっせんになくissenwowaraumonohaissenninaku】: expression:
take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭
肩身が狭い【かたみがせまいkatamigasemai】 Inflection: expression / adjective:
feeling ashamed; feeling of one's inferiority ➜ 肩身の狭い
片務【へんむhenmu】: noun / ~の noun:
unilaterality (e.g. of a contract); one-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)
手ブラ【てブラteBURA】: noun:
handbra; pose using only one's hands to cover one's breasts
精励恪勤【せいれいかっきんseireikakkin】 Inflection: noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:
assiduousness; attending diligently to one's study or duties - four character idiom
血判【けっぱんkeppan・けつばんketsuban^obs.・ちばんchiban^obs.】 Inflection: noun / ~する noun:
seal of blood; sealing with one's blood; しかもshikamo メモMEMO のno 下側shitagawa にni あるaru のno はha 汚れyogore じゃなくjanaku・・・けke、血判keppan！？ Moreover, what's on the bottom of the memo isn't dirt but a ... b-blood seal!?
前後不覚【ぜんごふかくzengofukaku】 Inflection: adjectival noun / noun:
unconsciousness; having no recollection of one's actions - four character idiom; 調子choushi にni 乗ってnotte 飲みnomi 過ぎてsugite、前後不覚zengofukakuになってninatte しまったshimatta。自分でjibunde 何nani をwo したshita のno かka まるでmarude 覚えていないoboeteinai んだnda。 I was drinking with total abandon and blacked out. I have no idea what I was doing.
何やかやで【なにやかやでnaniyakayade】: expression:
all told; what with one thing and another
行儀よくする【ぎょうぎよくするgyougiyokusuru】行儀良くする Inflection: expression / ~する verb (irregular):
to behave well; to mind one's manners ➜ 行儀
不足を言う【ふそくをいうfusokuwoiu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~う verb:
to complain; to express one's dissatisfaction
恋衣【こいごろもkoigoromo】: noun:
garb of love; metaphor for love kept as close to one as clothing - poetical term
答え合わせ【こたえあわせkotaeawase】: noun:
checking answers (e.g. to homework problems); verifying one's answers
ロスカットROSUKATTO・ロス・カットROSU/KATTO Inflection: noun / ~する noun:
loss-cutting; cutting one's losses - From English "loss cut" ➜ 損切り
数え【かぞえkazoe】: noun:
East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】
差し付ける【さしつけるsashitsukeru】差しつける・差付ける^irr. Inflection: ichidan verb / transitive:
to point (gun at); to hold under one's nose
冥々のうち【めいめいのうちmeimeinouchi】冥々の裡・冥冥の裡: expression:
unawares; before one is aware - usu. as 冥々のうちに
六十路【むそじmusoji】: noun:
age sixty; one's sixties
涙をのむ【なみだをのむnamidawonomu】涙を呑む Inflection: expression / godan ~む verb:
to pocket an insult; to choke back one's tears - idiom
太歳【たいさいtaisai】大歳: noun:
Taisai; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神
Jupiter (planet) - archaism ➜ 木星
拳を握る【こぶしをにぎるkobushiwonigiru】 Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to make a fist; to clench one's fist

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