Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 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
- おぶう《負ぶう》 Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to carry (a child) on one's back; to piggyback
- to take on (a job, responsibility, etc.) - archaism
- お蔵【おくら】お倉・御蔵・御倉
noun:
- shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
- rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate
- 惣領制【そうりょうせい】
noun:
- soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)
- 御薪【みかまぎ】
noun:
- kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
- special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
- kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism
- 花も実も有る【はなもみもある】花も実もある Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):
- to have both the looks and the substance; to be a compassionate and just person; to be interesting and instructive - idiom
- 玉箒・玉帚【たまははき・たまばはき】玉ははき【たまははき】玉ばはき【たまばはき】
noun:
- broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
- plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia) ➜ 箒草
- liquor; alcohol; sake
- 死に水を取る【しにみずをとる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to wet the lips of a dying person; to attend someone's last moments
- として☆
expression:
- as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
- apart from... (used to change the topic)
- even (e.g. "not even a single person") - before a negative form
- thinking that...; trying to... - after a volitional form ➜ とする
- 足運び【あしはこび】足はこび
noun:
- gait; manner of walking; footwork (e.g. in sport)
- characteristic way of moving, keeping the center of gravity low (centre) - Sumo term
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