Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- あのさん《彼のさん》
pronoun:
- that person (mainly used in red light districts) - honorific language - archaism
- you - honorific language - archaism
- 余人をもって代えがたい【よじんをもってかえがたい】余人をもって代え難い・余人を以て代え難い・余人を以て代えがたい
expression:
- hard to replace (with other person)
- メンヘラ・メンヘラー
noun:
- nutjob; mental job; lunatic; mentally troubled person - colloquialism - derogatory term
- 脳内お花畑【のうないおはなばたけ】脳内御花畑
noun:
- happy-go-lucky person; dreamer; intracranial flower garden [literal] - slang - derogatory term - idiom
- 入寺【にゅうじ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- entering a temple; visiting a temple
- joining a temple as a priest or head priest - obscure term
- 続く☆【つづく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to continue; to last; to go on
- to continue (without a break); to be unbroken
- to occur again and again
- to lead to; to connect to; to adjoin
- to come after; to follow; to succeed; to rank next to
- to hold out; to keep; to last
嵐はいつまで続くのだろうか。 How long will the storm last?
延々と続く車の列があった。 There was a continuous line of cars.
このところ飛行機事故が続く。 There have been a lot of airplane accidents recently.
- 背負う☆【せおう・しょう】脊負うirr. Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to carry on one's back
- to be burdened with; to take responsibility for
- to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something)
godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:
- to be conceited; to think highly of oneself [しょう] - in the form しょってる ➜ しょってる
- 花は桜木人は武士【はなはさくらぎひとはぶし】
expression:
- the best flowers are the cherry blossoms, the best individuals are the samurai; as the cherry blossom is first among flowers, so is the samurai first among men - proverb
- 主☆【しゅ・しゅうobs.】
noun / ~の noun:
- 異人館【いじんかん】
noun:
- Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era
- かわいい子には旅をさせよ【かわいいこにはたびをさせよ】可愛い子には旅をさせよ
expression:
- spare the rod and spoil the child; if you love your children, send them out into the world [literal] - proverb
- 桂園時代【けいえんじだい】
noun:
- Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)
- 項着・項着き【うなつき】頸着・頸着き【うなつき・くびつき】
noun:
- children's haircut having hair in the rear that reaches the nape of the neck - archaism
- 清和【せいわ】
noun:
- season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring)
- first ten days of the fourth lunar month ➜ 卯月
- 不足を補う【ふそくをおぎなう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to make up a shortfall; to cover a shortage; to compensate for a shortage; to fill a gap
- 算額【さんがく】
noun:
- votive tablet depicting a math puzzle given in devotion to a shrine or temple by a wasan mathematician ➜ 和算【わさん】
- 片膝を立てる【かたひざをたてる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to sit on the floor with one knee raised; to raise one knee; to sit with one knee up
- 畿内☆【きない】
noun:
- territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto
- 成長★【せいちょう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- growth; development; growing up; becoming an adult
- growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
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