Results, one-upmanship
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- 得手に帆を揚げる【えてにほをあげる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to hoist one's sail when the wind is fair; to get one's time to shine - idiom
- 二河白道【にがびゃくどう】
expression:
- metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term
- 辺張待ち【ペンチャンまち】
noun:
- one-sided wait for the end tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand (i.e. for a 3 while holding 1-2, or for a 7 while holding 8-9) - Mahjong term
- 尻端折り【しりはしょり・しりばしょり・しりはしおり】尻端折irr. Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- tucking up the hem of one's garments ➜ 尻からげ
- 目を晒す【めをさらす】目をさらす・目を曝す Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)
- 腑抜ける【ふぬける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to lose one's energy; to be cowardly - usu. as 腑抜けた
- 手弄り【てまさぐり】手まさぐり Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- playing with something with one's fingers
- searching with one's fingers (e.g. in the dark)
- 人間到る処青山あり【にんげんいたるところせいざんあり・じんかんいたるところせいざんあり】人間到る処青山有り・人間至る処青山あり・人間至る所青山有り・人間いたるところ青山あり
expression:
- home is wherever one lays one's hat; you can make your living anywhere in this world; there's room for us all in the world; wherever there are humans, there are burial places [literal]
- 手がすべる【てがすべる】手が滑る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
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