Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- 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
- 井蛙は以って海を語る可からず【せいあはもってうみをかたるべからず】
expression:
- a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】
- あわよくば
expression:
- if there is a chance; if possible; if circumstances permit; if things go well; if luck is on my side
- 水心あれば魚心【みずごころあればうおごころ】
expression:
- if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心
- 涅槃西風【ねはんにし・ねはんにしかぜ】
noun:
- wind blowing on the day of the Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (15th day of the 2nd month) - Buddhism term
- 対応説【たいおうせつ】
noun:
- correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説
- というと《と言うと》
conjunction:
- もしかして☆《若しかして》
expression / adverb:
- perhaps; possibly; maybe; by any chance; if I'm not mistaken
- if; in case; in the event that
ああ、もしかして名前を呼ばれるのが恥ずかしいって? Ah, could it be you're embarrassed to be called by your first name?
- 風呂桶【ふろおけ】
noun:
- bathtub (esp. wooden and bucket-shaped)
- small bucket used while bathing
月曜日にエヴァンス夫人はブリキの風呂桶で全員の衣類を洗いました。 Every Monday Mrs. Evans washed all the family's clothes in the tin bath.
- 焼け石に水【やけいしにみず】
expression:
- a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (pouring) water on a hot stone [literal] - idiom
- ダブ東【ダブトン】
noun:
- pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌
- ダブ南【ダブナン】
noun:
- pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌
- ダブ西【ダブシャー】
noun:
- pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌
- ダブ北【ダブペー】
noun:
- pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌
- 風林火山【ふうりんかざん】
expression:
- as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain - four character idiom
- 鎮子【ちんし・ちんす・ちんじ】
noun:
- ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind
- としたら
conjunction:
- if it happens that; if we make ...; if we take ...; if we assume ...; what if ...?
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