Results, 'possum up a gum tree
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- 踏み倒す【ふみたおす】踏倒す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to trample down; to crush underfoot; to kick down
- to avoid paying (e.g. a debt); to jump (a bill); to bilk; to shirk
- 身を任せる【みをまかせる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to
- 横滑り☆【よこすべり】横すべり・横辷り Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- sideslip; skid; sliding sideways
- shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company)
- sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)
車が横滑りして道路から湖に落ちたとき彼女は九死に一生を得た。 She had a narrow escape when her car skidded off the road into a lake.
- 力負け☆【ちからまけ】力負irr. Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- losing by being overmatched; being defeated by a stronger opponent
- losing by misusing one's powers; defeat as a result of trying too hard
- 豊作飢饉【ほうさくききん】
noun:
- impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom
- 豊作貧乏【ほうさくびんぼう】
noun:
- impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom
- 鷸蚌の争い【いつぼうのあらそい】
expression / noun:
- fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利
- 襲う★【おそう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to attack; to assail; to make an assault; to strike; to hunt down
- to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.)
- to make a sudden visit
基本はアスカがシンジをいじめる。で、たまにキレたシンジがアスカを襲う。その時のアスカはやけにしおらしい。 The key is that Asuka abuses Shinji. So, rarely, Shinji flips and assaults Asuka. Then Asuka is surprisingly meek.
- 擬する【ぎする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.) / transitive:
- to imitate; to copy; to mimic
- to enter someone as a candidate
- to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
- to compare; to liken
- 擬す【ぎす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to imitate; to copy; to mimic ➜ 擬する
- to enter someone as a candidate
- to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
- to compare; to liken
- 打ち込む☆【うちこむ】打ちこむ・打込む・うち込む Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in
- to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to smash
- to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades) ➜ 撃ち込む
- to input (data); to enter
- to devote oneself to; to go heart and soul into; to throw oneself into; to go head over heels for
- to practice hitting (baseball, tennis, etc.) - Sports term
- to hit (an opponent in kendo, boxing, etc.); to get a blow in - Martial Arts term
- to invade one's opponent's territory (in the game of go); to place a stone in an opponent's formation
- to pour (concrete, etc.) into a form
ノートパソコンの電源を入れ、ブラウザを立ち上げて、もう覚えてしまったアドレスを打ち込む。 I switch on my laptop, start up the browser, and type in the address I've already learnt by heart.
基礎に杭を打ち込むのを忘れて、空中に楼閣を建てるとは、あなたも愚かな人だ。 It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.
- ひどい目にあう【ひどいめにあう】ひどい目に遭う・酷い目に遭う・酷い目にあう・ひどい目に会う・酷い目に会う・酷い目に合うirr.・ひどい目に合うirr.・酷い目に遇う Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to have a bad time; to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to suffer ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】
- 出直す☆【でなおす】出なおす Inflection
godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:
- to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf
- to call again; to visit again; to come again
- 巻き添えを食う【まきぞえをくう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to get entangled in; to be involved in; to be embroiled in; to get mixed up in
- だるま☆《達磨》ダルマ
noun:
- daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
- Bodhidharma
- prostitute
- 枢【くるる・くろろ・くる・くるり】
noun:
- pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
- sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿
- 読み取る☆【よみとる】読みとる・読取る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to read (someone's) mind; to read between the lines
- to read (a calibration, a tape, etc.); to read (out)
言外の意味を読み取るならば、この手紙はお金の無心です。 If you read between the lines, this letter is a request for money.
- 祖霊【それい】
noun:
- ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
- ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
- 姫皮【ひめかわ】
noun:
- thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】
- しゃち《鯱》シャチ
noun:
- orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
- mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) [しゃち] - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】
- イデアル・イデ・アル
noun / ~の noun:
- ideal
- ideal in a ring (i.e. subset of a ring closed under addition and multiplication by elements of the ambient ring) - Mathematics term
- 遠きは花の香近きは糞の香【とおきははなのかちかきはくそのか】
expression:
- blue are the hills that are far away; the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; far away smells of flowers; close up smells of dung [literal] - proverb
- 吹き寄せる【ふきよせる】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to drift; to blow together ➜ 吹き集める
- to have the wind start to blow; to have the wind spring up
- 逸する☆【いっする】佚する Inflection
~する verb (spec.):
- to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance)
- to overlook; to omit; to forget
- to deviate
彼女は時機を逸する前に、選挙からおりました。 She bowed out of the race before it was too late.
- 駅売り【えきうり】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:
- station vendor; selling (newspapers, etc.) at a train station; item sold at a train station
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