ichidan verb:

• to think something over and over; to rack one's brains; to be at a loss

noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; making a pledge by hooking each other's little fingers ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• huffing and puffing; gasping; with a deep breath - onomatopoeia

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to panic; to freak out; to fly into a tizzy - slang

ichidan verb:

• to like; to appreciate; to have a preference

noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party ➜ 合コン

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be fooled by something; to be taken in; to fall for a trick

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• flake; lamella (of bone); foil (of metal); flat, thin slice of a material

expression:

• anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; clothes on a packhorse driver [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (personal) guarantor; (personal) surety; person providing a character reference

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun / ~する noun:

• telling others; revealing to others; letting out a secret

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

expression / adverb:

• hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope

expression / adjective:

• in good shape; strongly built; in good health; having a strong constitution

expression:

• intermittently; at intervals (of); after a pause

adverb:

• in an angry mood; in anger; angrily; in a huff