Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 口は禍の元【くちはわざわいのもと】口は災いの元
expression:
- words can lead to disaster; the tongue is the root of calamities; the more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it - proverb
- 座繰り【ざぐり】座ぐり・座刳り・坐繰り・座繰irr.・坐繰irr. Inflection
noun:
- reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature [座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰]
noun / ~する noun:
- counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり
noun:
- hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り
- 大船に乗る【おおぶねにのる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to gain a reliable foundation and be in a safe condition; to board a large ship [literal]
- 瓢箪から駒【ひょうたんからこま】
expression:
- something very unexpected; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes from a gourd [literal]
- 出【しゅつ】
noun:
- coming out; emerging
- being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)
- 須弥山【しゅみせん】
noun:
- Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)
- 昭和一桁【しょうわひとけた】
noun:
- (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom
- 武家伝奏【ぶけでんそう】
noun:
- Imperial official in charge of communication between the shogunate and the court (during the Muromachi and Edo periods) - four character idiom
- 青は藍より出でて藍より青し【あおはあいよりいでてあいよりあおし】
expression:
- the student has become the master; blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo [literal] - proverb
- 比良八荒【ひらはっこう】
noun:
- cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar ➜ 法華八講
- 売り抜け【うりぬけ】売りぬけ・うり抜け・売抜け
noun:
- selling out before the price drops (usu. shares); selling at the top of the market
- 陥れる【おとしいれる】落とし入れる・落し入れる・おとし入れる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
- to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
- to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる
この無限の空間に漂う永遠の沈黙が私を恐怖に陥れる。 The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
- 源氏☆【げんじ】
noun:
- Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari)
- the Minamoto family
鎌倉は源氏ゆかりの地です。 Kamakura is a place noted in connection with the Genji family.
- 重なる☆【かさなる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
- to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
- to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously
- ちょっぴり☆・ちょぴり
adverb / ~と adverb:
- a tiny bit; just a smidgin; a wee bit; very slightly - onomatopoeia
- 文武不岐【ぶんぶふき】
expression:
- scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path - four character idiom
- 洋の東西を問わず【ようのとうざいをとわず】
expression / adverb:
- in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient
- 虎口を逃れて竜穴に入る【ここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる】
expression:
- out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den [literal] - proverb
- すかっと Inflection
adverb / ~する noun:
- refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ すっきり
- (wearing, etc. something) elegantly; smartly; stylishly; in a refined manner - onomatopoeia
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