noun:

• carnivorous female; predatory woman; aggressive woman who take the initiative in relationships with men ➜ 肉食系女子【にくしょくけいじょし】

noun:

• capital investment; capital expenditure; investment in plant and equipment

noun:

• automatic teller machine; ATM; flexi-teller; hole-in-the-wall - From English "cash-service corner"

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

noun / adjectival noun:

• great inconvenience; great deal of trouble; big nuisance; royal pain in the behind

noun:

• very bad condition; awful state; terrible situation; in the shit - usu. as どつぼにはまる ➜ どつぼにはまる
• night-soil reservoir dug in a field ➜ 野壺【のつぼ】
• night-soil pot - orig. meaning
• earthenware vessel; earthen urn - obscure term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give advice; to counsel; to take part in a consultation

noun:

• incubus; succubus; demon appearing in a dream ➜ 夢魔【むま】

expression:

• prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling [literal] - proverb

noun:

• limited liability company; LLC; GK; company structure for small businesses, established in 2005

expression / noun:

• sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text ➜ 原文のまま【げんぶんのまま】

noun:

• gang of hoodlums (hooligans); bad company; companion in gang activities - four character idiom

noun:

• tamago dofu; tamago-dofu; steamed egg custard with soup stock, cooked in a square mould

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do something ridiculous; to do something bizarre; to boil tea in one's navel [literal] - idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• feigned innocence or naivete; beguiling innocence; wolf in sheep's clothing

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• composed and unhurried; easygoing and leisurely; in indolence - four character idiom

expression / adverbial noun:

• to a great extent; incredibly (tasty, much, etc.); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

adjectival noun:

• of inquiring mind; eager to study; enthusiastic in studying

~と adverb:

• gurgling down; being sucked into; caving in suddenly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• soy sauce ramen; soy ramen; ramen in clear brown broth flavored with soy sauce

expression:

• as (for); for; in the capacity of ➜ として・は

noun:

• combover; comb-over; hair combed in stripes across a bald pate - From English "barcode hair"

expression / adjective:

• frail; having a weak constitution; being in poor health