ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have one's own way (against all reason); to push through an unreasonable idea

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn out just as one wished; to play into the hands (of)

expression:

• It is justifiable to kill one (harmful) person to save the lives of many - four character idiom

noun:

• the recovery of lost territory; recovering (regaining) lost ground (one's former position); fence-mending - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• beautiful eyes; bright-eyed; there being a sublime charm about one's eyes - four character idiom

expression:

• similar things turning up one after another; bamboo shoots after rain [literal]

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) - abbreviation ➜ ブラザーコンプレックス・シスコン
• black contemporary (music) - abbreviation ➜ ブラックコンテンポラリー

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to open one's eyes wide (as in fear or anger) ➜ 白目【しろめ】
• to faint

noun:

• soot-colored bamboo (coloured)
• bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end) ➜ すす払い

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to (relax and) stretch one's legs out
• to go for a further walk

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• something cold (esp. a body)
• something used to cool one's stomach

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance - esp. 吉野山 in Nara

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to open one's eyes wide (in anger, surprise, etc.); to goggle at

noun:

• all pungs; winning hand consisting of four pungs or kongs and one pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story ➜ 泣き落とす

noun:

• taking the entrance examination for a school without regard for one's chances of passing

noun:

• shop where one can buy and sell gift certificates, coupons, travel and concert tickets, etc. ➜ 金券ショップ【きんけんショップ】

noun:

• shelf with offerings for welcoming the spirits of one's ancestors during the Bon Festival

noun:

• eating only one's favourite food; having an unvarying diet; eating poorly