Results, the nail which sticks out gets hammered down
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- 木馬☆【もくば】
noun:
- wooden horse; rocking horse
- vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics ➜ 跳馬
- the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)
- 現れる☆【あらわれる】現われる☆・表れる☆・表われる・顕れる・顕われるirr. Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to come out; to embody; to materialize; to materialise
- to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
夜行ったことは昼現れる。 What is done by night appears by day.
内面の欠点は必ず表に現れる。 An inner defect never fails to express itself outwardly.
- 釈迦に説法【しゃかにせっぽう】
expression:
- teaching your grandmother to suck eggs; teaching something to someone who knows more than you; preaching to the choir; lecturing to the Buddha [literal]
- 潜脱【せんだつ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)
- カリ活用【カリかつよう】
noun:
- classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")
- KY【ケーワイ・ケイーワイ・ケイワイ】
noun:
- being unable to read the situation; being unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation - from the initials of 空気(が)読めない - abbreviation ➜ 空気が読めない
- 鏡の間【かがみのま】鏡ノ間
noun:
- room behind the curtain of a noh stage, where the actors prepare; greenroom (noh); mirror room [literal]
- hall of mirrors (at Versailles)
- 下手な鉄砲も数撃ちゃ当たる【へたなてっぽうもかずうちゃあたる】
expression:
- even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots [literal] - proverb ➜ 下手な鉄砲も数撃てば当たる
- 神経をすり減らす【しんけいをすりへらす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to fray one's nerves; to wear out one's nerves; to frazzle one's nerves; to be a nervous wreck
- 行々子【ぎょうぎょうし】行行子・仰々子・仰仰子
noun:
- reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler) - obscure term ➜ 葦切
- イメトレ
noun:
- training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video) - abbreviation ➜ イメージトレーニング
- 成長を阻む【せいちょうをはばむ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to hinder the growth of (e.g. plants, someone); to hamper the growth of
- 前轍を踏む【ぜんてつをふむ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ... - idiom ➜ 轍を踏む
- 日の目を見る【ひのめをみる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to see the light of day; to be revealed (to the world); to be realized
- 朝っぱらから【あさっぱらから】
expression:
- very early in the morning; so early in the morning; at this ungodly hour
- やこうぼく《夜香木》ヤコウボク
noun:
- night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night
- 耳抜き【みみぬき】耳ぬき Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- ear clearing; clearing the ears; equalizing pressure in the ears with external pressure
- 道筋をつける【みちすじをつける】道筋を付ける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to pave the way; to put in motion; to put on the road (to)
- 正法【せいほう】
noun:
- just law
- proper method
- the true teachings of Buddha; Period of the True Law - Buddhism term
- 五本の指に入る【ごほんのゆびにはいる】5本の指に入る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be within the top five; to be one of the five best - idiom
- 末生り【うらなり】末成り・末成irr.
noun:
- fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
- weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man
- すす払い【すすはらい】煤払い
noun:
- cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning
- (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring) ➜ 煤掃き
- 書き立てる【かきたてる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to write (a person) up (in a positive or negative light); to write something up so that it stands out; to write up in an exaggerated fashion; to detail; to list
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