Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 社会不適合者【しゃかいふてきごうしゃ】
noun:
- person unfit for society; misfit - 社会不適応者 is considered more correct, but is less common ➜ 社会不適応者
- 一盗二婢三妾四妓五妻【いっとうにひさんしょうしぎごさい】
expression:
- most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)
- 減歩【げんぶ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses
- 命を懸ける【いのちをかける】命を賭ける・命をかける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
- 落ち☆【おち】落irr.
noun:
- slip; omission
- outcome; final result; the end
- punch line (of a joke) - often オチ - usually written using kana alone
落ちはしないかという恐怖で彼は立ちすくんだ。 Fear of falling caused him to freeze.
- 裏方☆【うらかた】
noun:
- someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter ➜ 表方
- lady consort (to a high personage)
いわゆる裏方仕事もたくさんあります。 There's also a great deal of so called behind-the-scenes work.
- フライング☆ Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- flying
- false start - abbreviation ➜ フライングスタート
- doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date
- 入道【にゅうどう】
noun:
- entering the priesthood; priest; monk - Buddhism term
- man with a shaven head
- bald-headed monster
- 手出し【てだし】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- meddling; interfering
noun:
- choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】
つまらない手出しをしてやぶへびに終わった。 He meddled where he wasn't wanted and it backfired on him.
- 蹲踞【そんきょ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- crouching; formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match - Sumo, Martial Arts term
- 縁座【えんざ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- (system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members
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