Results, one-upmanship
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- 巣離れ【すばなれ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- leaving the nest; "becoming independent of one's parents" [figurative] ➜ 巣立つ【すだつ】
- 屁と火事はもとから騒ぐ【へとかじはもとからさわぐ】
expression:
- it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest; the one who smelt it dealt it - proverb
- 落花流水【らっかりゅうすい】
noun:
- mutual love; the love one shows to another person being returned - four character idiom
- 到着次第【とうちゃくしだい】
adverbial noun:
- upon arrival of an item (items); as soon as one arrives - four character idiom
- 瞿然【くぜん】 Inflection
~たる adjective / ~と adverb:
- looking on with surprise; surprised and changing one's expression
- 都合次第【つごうしだい】
noun:
- depending on the (one's) situation (circumstances); at one's pleasure - four character idiom
- 朝三暮四【ちょうさんぼし】
noun:
- being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom
- 蛇の道は蛇【じゃのみちはへび・へびのみちはへびirr.】
expression:
- the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one - proverb
- 明け暮れる【あけくれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing
- 見切りを付ける【みきりをつける】見切りをつける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)
- 両面【リャンメン】
noun:
- double-sided wait (for one's last tile); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term ➜ 両面待ち【リャンメンまち】
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