Results, to guess what a person is thinking
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- 一顧傾城【いっこけいせい】
noun:
- woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国【けいせいけいこく】
- 下衆の後知恵【げすのあとぢえ】下種の後知恵・下司の後知恵・げすの後知恵・下種のあと知恵
expression:
- hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool); an afterwit is everybody's wit - proverb
- 具備【ぐび】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- possession (of what is required); fulfilment (of conditions); being equipped with; being endowed with
- 巧者☆【こうしゃ】功者 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- cleverness; skill; tact
noun:
- clever person (in a particular field); skillful person (skilful)
- 映じる【えいじる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- 映ずる【えいずる】 Inflection
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:
- 裏問う【うらどう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb (spec.):
- to ascertain a person's innermost feelings - obscure term
- 災いする【わざわいする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:
- to be the ruin of (a person)
- 気持ちを逸らす【きもちをそらす】気持ちをそらす Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to distract a person's attention ➜ 注意を逸らす【ちゅういをそらす】
- 習うより慣れろ【ならうよりなれろ】習うより慣れよ【ならうよりなれよ】
expression:
- experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught [literal]
- 陣取り☆【じんとり】
noun:
- children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base
- taking a place; securing a position
- お手上げ☆【おてあげ】お手あげ・御手上げ
noun:
- being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; throwing up (one's) hands [literal]
火災で全てのコンピューターディスクが駄目になってしまった時、会社はもうお手上げの状況だった。 The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.
- 割れる☆【われる】破れる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to break; to be smashed
- to split; to crack; to fissure; to be torn
- to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party)
- to come to light; to become clear; to be identified; to be revealed
- to be distorted (of a sound)
- to be divisible (without a remainder)
- to go below a minimum
頭が割れるように痛かったので、私はいつもより早く寝た。 Having a cracking headache, I went to bed earlier than usual.
通りでガラスが粉々に割れるのが聞こえたわ。 We heard glass shattering in our street.
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