Results, the nail which sticks out gets hammered down
Partial results:
Showing results 5801-5825:
- 厄負け【やくまけ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- victimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year
- 年度末【ねんどまつ】
noun:
- end of the fiscal year; end of the school year
自動車の売れ行きは年度末に後退しました。 Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.
- 波に乗る【なみにのる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to go with the flow; to go with the times - idiom
- 滔々【とうとう】滔滔 Inflection
~と adverb / ~たる adjective:
- torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
- (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
- flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times
- 額ずく【ぬかずく】額づく【ぬかづく】額突く・叩頭く・額衝く【ぬかずく・ぬかづく・ぬかつくobs.】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to kowtow (to bow from a kneeling position such that the forehead touches the ground); to prostrate oneself; to give a deep, reverent bow
- 一所懸命【いっしょけんめい】 Inflection
adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:
- very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
- sticking at living in one place
一所懸命になって彼はその木に登った。 With great effort he climbed up the tree.
- 脂が乗る【あぶらがのる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
- (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter
- 位☆【くらい】
adverb / suffix:
- throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat - orig. from 座居, meaning "seat"
- government position; court rank ➜ 位階
- social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung
noun:
あなたはお母さんに1ヶ月に何回位手紙を書きますか。 How many times a month do you write a letter to your mother?
5814を千の位に四捨五入すれば何になりますか。 What's 5,814 rounded to the nearest thousand?
- 東夷【あずまえびす・とうい】
noun:
- warrior from the eastern parts of Japan - derogatory term - archaism - Kantō dialect
- eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China) [とうい]
- ボタンを掛け違える【ボタンをかけちがえる】ボタンをかけ違える Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to button up wrong; to start from the wrong button
- to bungle up the order - idiom
- 貫く☆【つらぬく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to go through; to pierce; to penetrate
- to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through
- to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with; to keep (e.g. faith); to maintain (e.g. independence)
光は闇を貫く。 The light penetrates the darkness.
そのキリスト教徒は自分の信念を断固として貫く。 The devout Christian persists in his belief.
Kanji
© Based on JMdict, KANJIDIC2, and JMnedict, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used in conformance with the Group's licence. Example sentences from the Tatoeba project (CC BY 2.0). Kanji stroke order data from the KanjiVG project by Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). See comprehensive list of data sources for more info.
Search other dictionaries for the nail which sticks out gets hammered down:
Yahoo!辞書 / goo辞書 / alc.co.jp / Weblio / Wiktionary