Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- ガラガラ・がらがら Inflection
adverb / ~と adverb:
- with a clatter; with a rattle - onomatopoeia
~の noun / adjectival noun:
- empty; bare; uninhabited; vacant; unoccupied - onomatopoeia
- raspy (voice); gravelly; husky - onomatopoeia
adverb / ~と adverb:
- with a gargle - onomatopoeia
~する noun / adverb:
- rough (personality, speech, etc.); unreserved; outspoken; boorish; ill-mannered - onomatopoeia
noun:
- rattle (e.g. baby's toy) - onomatopoeia
- ほとめく
yodan ~く verb (archaic):
- to make a noise; to make a racket - archaism
- to give a heartfelt reception; to welcome; to entertain - archaism - Kantō dialect
- 一家★【いっか・いっけ】
noun:
- a family; a household; a home; one's family; whole family
- (one's own) style; school
- gang; (yazuka) family
- 問い直す【といなおす】問いなおす Inflection
godan ~す verb:
- to question again; to repeat a question (esp. a problematic point, or to verify understanding); to repeat a query
- 透かす【すかす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to look through
- to hold up to the light
- to make an opening; to leave space; to space (lines); to prune (trees)
- to fart without making a sound
- 尻拭い【しりぬぐい】尻ぬぐい Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]
- 撤収★【てっしゅう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- removal (e.g. of a building); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (e.g. a stage set)
- withdrawal (of troops); evacuation; retreating
- パスモ
noun:
- PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ
- 任に堪える【にんにたえる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be equal to the task; to be up to the job; to be capable of filling the post
- とぼける☆《惚ける・恍ける》 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
- to play the fool
- to be in one's dotage
- 一環★【いっかん】
noun / ~の noun:
- link (e.g. a part of a larger plan)
政府は取締の一環として不法入国外国人を追放しています。 The government is expelling illegal aliens as part of a crackdown.
- 入室☆【にゅうしつ・にっしつ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- entering a room [にゅうしつ] ➜ 退室
- studying under a Buddhist teacher - Buddhism term
- 寸足らず【すんたらず】 Inflection
~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:
- a little too short
- slightly worse; a bit inferior
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