godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to throw something to each other; to pass something back and forth; to bandy something around
• to take part in a pitching duel - Baseball term

noun:

• luo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii); herbaceous perennial vine native to China and Thailand; fruit of the Siraita grosvenorii

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

expression:

• furthermore; and another thing; even as

expression:

• anybody (without distinction); every Tom, Dick and Harry; anything

expression:

• you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope - proverb

noun:

• beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather

expression:

• tomorrow will take care of itself; let the morn come and the meat with it; tomorrow, the winds of tomorrow will blow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• casualties; killed and wounded; human damage ➜ 死傷者

expression:

• dancing fool, watching fool; you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; all fools, so let's all dance

noun:

• standard datum of geographic coordinates; point of origin of longitude and latitude; geodetic datum

expression:

• by far; far and away; by all odds

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat

noun:

• host in a bar for male homosexuals; effeminate man who talks and dresses like a woman; young male homosexual - From English "gay boy"

noun:

• logic unit; arithmetic and logic unit; ALU - IT term

noun:

• peacherine; hybrid of a peach and a nectarine; cross between a peach and a nectarine

expression:

• look carefully where your own footsteps fall; seek enlightenment by knowing yourself and not by watching others; know thyself

noun / ~する noun:

• going about immersed or absorbed; pacing back and forth meditatively; being deep in thought

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

noun:

• going concern; stocks and all; goods and furniture included

noun:

• video intercom; intercom with a video camera and display; video doorphone - From English "television door phone"

noun:

• diver's exposure suit; body suits, wet suits, and dry suits; suit which protects divers from exposure and abrasion

ichidan verb:

• to be at a loss; to think and think but get nowhere; to fail to come up with a good idea