Results, one-upmanship
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- 死生不知【ししょうふち】
noun / ~の noun:
- daredevil; reckless; thinking nothing of one's death - four character idiom
- どうれ
interjection:
- welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】
- 目元千両【めもとせんりょう】目許千両・眼元千両irr.
expression / noun:
- beautiful eyes; bright-eyed; there being a sublime charm about one's eyes - four character idiom
- やんぴ・やんぺ・やーんぴ
expression:
- I quit!; I'm out!; declaring one quits, mainly used in children's games - children's language - Ōsaka dialect
noun / counter:
- nth person to quit a game - children's language - Ōsaka dialect
- はらわたが煮えくり返る【はらわたがにえくりかえる】腸が煮えくり返る・腸が煮え繰り返る・腸が煮えくりかえる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be furious; to seethe with anger; to have one's blood boiling
- いい加減にする【いいかげんにする】好い加減にする Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
- 骨を埋める【ほねをうずめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to die in (a foreign land); to engage in something until death comes; to do something for the rest of one's life
- 肉を切らせて骨を断つ【にくをきらせてほねをたつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom
- ワンパターン・ワンパタン・ワン・パターン・ワン・パタン
noun / ~の noun:
- predictable; repetitive; being in a rut; set in one's ways - From English "one pattern"
- 心ここにあらず【こころここにあらず】心焉に在らず
expression:
- there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other
- 抱きとめる【だきとめる】抱き留める・抱き止める・抱留める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms
- 尻に火がつく【しりにひがつく】尻に火が付く・尻にひがつく Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to be pressed for time; to be pressed by urgent business; to have one's pants on fire
- 肉を切らせて骨を切る【にくをきらせてほねをきる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom
- にょきりにょきり
~と adverb:
- feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき
- イッテンチョウチョウウオ
noun:
- teardrop butterflyfish (Chaetodon unimaculatus); teardrop coralfish; one-spot butterfly
- 目に映る【めにうつる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes
- 袂を絞る【たもとをしぼる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to shed many tears; to weep; to wring dry one's sleeve (which has been soaked by tears) [literal]
- 打ち出の小槌【うちでのこづち】打出の小槌
noun:
- magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave
- 頭が下がる【あたまがさがる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to admire greatly; to salute (in admiration); to take one's hat off to - idiom
- 首をやる【くびをやる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be hanged; to be struck dead; to eat one's hat - usu. figurative
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