noun:

• welcome rain; merciful rain; blessed rain; rain after a long dry period

expression / adverb:

• openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face

noun:

• gambler; yakuza; person without a legitimate job

expression:

• having one's good intentions backfire dangerously; causing harm when trying to prevent it; trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling [literal] - idiom

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

noun / ~する 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 - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

noun:

• laborious work; lucubration; lucubrations; painstakingly polishing a piece of literary work - four character idiom

noun:

• year-before period; corresponding period of previous year; same period a year ago

noun:

• final paragraph; final paragraphs; the end of a story of block of text

expression:

• fuck you!; don't fuck with me!; don't fuck around!; don't be a screw off! - vulgar ➜ ふざけんなよ

expression:

• very improbable; vanishingly unlikely; only with a miracle

noun / ~する noun:

• defacement; abrasion; wear and tear; crushing of a nerve

noun:

• puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)

noun:

• climbing kiln; ascending kiln; connected (pottery) kilns built on a slope

noun:

• enforcement regulations; misterial ordinance; regulations relative to the application of a law

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

expression:

• near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess

expression:

• don't worry about it; it's nothing; don't give it a thought ➜ いいから

noun:

• free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade - four character idiom

expression:

• figuratively speaking; metaphorically speaking; so to speak; to use a figure of speech

expression / noun:

• this day next week; today week; a week from today

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; in a trickle - onomatopoeia ➜ たらたら
• loosely (hanging); limply - onomatopoeia ➜ だらり

godan ~る verb:

• to attack; to strike; to take a swing at

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 - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】