expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to drag things out; to creep up slowly on the point; to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope) [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to throw one's weight around; to exercise one's authority; to make one's presence felt

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades) ➜ 打ち込む【うちこむ】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to hold a child in one's arms; to embrace a child
• to provide for a child (children)

expression / adjective:

• unable to compete with; not able to make a dent in (e.g. a problem); not able to get a solid hit in (e.g. in a fight)
• hard to chew

expression / ichidan verb:

• to harm; to cause harm to

expression:

• be supposed or expected to (do); be sure to (do); ought to (do)

godan ~く verb:

• to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to let loose (e.g. a fart)
• to utter (e.g. a lie) - vulgar
• to do - vulgar

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to act as an opposite; to form a counterpart; to act as a twin

expression / ichidan verb:

• to relax one's efforts; to let up; to let one's guard down

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to harm one's health; to injure one's health; to be harmful to one's health

noun / adjectival noun:

• trouble; bother; annoyance; nuisance; inconvenience

~する noun:

• to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have both the looks and the substance; to be a compassionate and just person; to be interesting and instructive - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)
• to pass the baton; to hand on the torch - idiom

noun:

• cup of sake used to drink to the establishment of a partnership, commitment to marriage, etc.; nuptial cup of sake

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's wits about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary of trickery - idiom ➜ 眉唾物【まゆつばもの】