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】

noun / ~する noun:

• novelization; novelisation; turning a film script into a novel ➜ ノベライゼーション

expression:

• once over the borders one may do anything; what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas; shame (committed while) on a journey can be scratched away [literal] - proverb

noun:

• key station; flagship station; leading station of a broadcasting network

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fray one's nerves; to wear out one's nerves; to frazzle one's nerves; to be a nervous wreck

expression / ~と adverb:

• without making waves; softly; (like) a willow in the wind [literal] - idiom

expression / adjective:

• not be concerned at all; not mind at all; not care a bit ➜ 気になる

noun:

• master; head of household; man of the house; principal supporter of a temple

expression / noun:

• hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal [literal] - usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government - idiom - derogatory term

expression / noun:

• beautiful eyes; bright-eyed; there being a sublime charm about one's eyes - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do something useless; to paint the lily; to gild refined gold; to build a roof atop the roof [literal] ➜ 屋上架屋

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest - idiom