Results, one-upmanship
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- タメ張る【タメはる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- 盗人を捕らえて見れば我が子なり【ぬすびとをとらえてみればわがこなり】
expression:
- the doting parent's purse is plundered; the thief caught turns out to be one's own son [literal] - proverb
- 一二を争う【いちにをあらそう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to compete for the first place; to be one of the best
- 呼び合う【よびあう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb:
- to call each other; to call out to one another
いやいや、結構結構。下の名前で呼び合うのは親近感がわいてよろしいことだ。 Not at all, that's perfectly fine. Calling each other by one's given name is a good thing; it produces a feeling of fellowship.
- リスカ Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- wrist cutting; slashing one's wrists - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ リストカット
- 目に角を立てる【めにかどをたてる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to look angrily at; to look with anger in one's eyes - idiom
- 山が当たる【やまがあたる】山が当る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to accurately guess what subjects will turn up on a test; to have one's predictions turn out correct
- 火事見舞い【かじみまい】火事見舞
noun:
- post-fire visit to express sympathy; expressing one's sympathy after a fire - four character idiom
- ばんカラ《蛮カラ》ばんから《蛮から・蛮襟》バンカラ Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- scruffy; unconcerned about one's personal appearance
noun / adjectival noun:
- rough and uncouth vigor (vigour)
俺は青二才の頃は蛮カラぶって真夏に二週間ほど、お風呂に入らなかったこともあった。 When I was young, I was a bit scruffy and there were times when I didn't take a bath for up to two weeks during the summer.
- 多層建て列車【たそうだてれっしゃ】
noun:
- "multilayer" train; single train formed by joining one or more trains having a different origin or destination
- 大殿【おおとの】
noun:
- current master; father of one's current master - honorific language ➜ 若殿【わかとの】
- minister (of government); noble - honorific language
- nobleman's residence - honorific language - archaism
- 写真嫌い【しゃしんぎらい】 Inflection
noun / adjectival noun:
- cameraphobia; dislike of having one's photograph taken
- 見たり聞いたり【みたりきいたり】 Inflection
expression / noun / ~する noun:
- seeing and hearing; (from) one's own experiences
Kanji
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