Results, keeping a useless person on the payroll
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- 鶏鳴狗盗【けいめいくとう】
noun:
- person who resorts to petty tricks; a person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks - four character idiom
- 切歯扼腕【せっしやくわん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- being enraged (indignant, impatient); gnashing the teeth and clenching the arms on the breast (in anger or regret) - four character idiom
- 勝負は時の運【しょうぶはときのうん】
expression:
- victory depends on the luck of the day (i.e. it isn't always the strongest who wins)
- 法治国家【ほうちこっか】
noun:
- country with a constitutional government; constitutional state; country where the rule of law prevails; system based on the rule of law
- ウマ
noun:
- points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term
- 人☆【ひと】ヒト
noun:
- man; person
- human being; mankind; people
- human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species - usually written using kana alone
- character; personality
- man of talent; true man
- another person; other people; others
- adult
この人は画家だ! This fellow is an artist!
人は天から与えられるのでなければ、なにもうけることはできません。 A man can receive only what is given to him from heaven.
- 音読み☆【おんよみ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- on reading; on'yomi; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji ➜ 訓読み
- 石抱き【いしだき】
noun:
- form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap
- 困ったちゃん【こまったちゃん】
noun:
- person oblivious to the fact they are irritating or inconveniencing others; pain in the neck; pest - colloquialism
- 右へ倣え【みぎへならえ】右へ習えirr.
expression:
- follow the person to your right (command to form a line)
- following someone's example; imitating someone; following suit
- 輝点【きてん】
noun:
- light spot (e.g. blip on radar); always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD screens, etc.); calescence point
- 市販★【しはん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available
~の noun:
- commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf; store-bought
これらは市販されている最も上等のかばんだ。 These are the best bags on the market.
- 子忌み【ねいみ】子忌
noun:
- collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び
- どっこい
interjection:
- heigh-hoh; heave-ho
- hold on!; just a minute
- used as a meaningless word in a song for rhythm
- 物憑き【ものつき】
noun:
- being possessed (by a spirit); possessed person
- child or doll used as a vessel for a spirit invoked by a shaman or miko ➜ 憑坐【よりまし】
- どさ回りをやる【どさまわりをやる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to go on tour; to be on the road (e.g. theatre troupe) (theater)
- 中人【ちゅうにん・ちゅうじん】
noun:
- child in elementary or middle school
- go-between; intermediary; middleman; mediator; intercessor ➜ 仲人【ちゅうにん】
- person of middling talent, strength, etc. [ちゅうじん] - archaism
- middle-class person; bourgeois person [ちゅうじん] - archaism
- はじき飛ばす【はじきとばす】弾き飛ばす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to flick off; to give ... the flick; to send something flying; to hit (a person); to knock down
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