Results, on-the-air
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- 盗人を捕らえて見れば我が子なり【ぬすびとをとらえてみればわがこなり】
expression:
- the doting parent's purse is plundered; the thief caught turns out to be one's own son [literal] - proverb
- 衆寡【しゅうか】
noun:
- the many and the few
孤軍奮闘したけれど、衆寡敵せず、彼のビジネスプランは受け入れられなかったよ。 He put up a brave and lone struggle, but up against such heavy odds he couldn't get his business plan accepted.
- へたる Inflection
godan ~る verb:
- 一二を争う【いちにをあらそう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to compete for the first place; to be one of the best
- 国際人権規約【こくさいじんけんきやく】
noun:
- International Covenants on Human Rights; ICCPR
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; ICESCR
- 灸を据える【きゅうをすえる】灸をすえる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to rake over the coals; to scold; to chastise; to roast - idiom
- to burn moxa on the skin - orig. meaning
- 方違い【かたたがい】
noun:
- setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり
- 垂んとす【なりなんとす・なんなんとす】
expression:
- to close in on (30 years of age, etc.); to approach; to get close to - archaism ➜ 垂んとする
- 鬼面仏心【きめんぶっしん】
noun:
- having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart - four character idiom
- 肩寄せる【かたよせる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be (standing) together, an arm across the other's shoulder - contraction of 肩を寄せる
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