expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to show one's age (e.g. to start creaking at the joints); to wear out (e.g. machinery) ➜ ガタガタ

expression:

• I thought so; I suspected as much; Just as I thought; Now you are talking; That's the spirit - colloquialism

noun:

• Desjardin's sailfin tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii, species of Indian Ocean tang); Indian sail-fin surgeonfish; Red Sea sailfin tang

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to chill one's bones (e.g. because of cold, pain, etc.); to be very cold; to be scathing

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
• to warp one's mouth

noun / ~する noun:

• confrontation; standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings)
• squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against; holding one's own with

noun:

• nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum); apple of Sodom; titty fruit; cow's udder - From English "foxface"
• foxface (Siganus vulpinus, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); fox face; fox-face - From English "foxface"

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)
• New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine
• festival involving fire dedicated to the gods

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• smack in the middle; perfect strike; bull's eye - colloquialism ➜ ど・ストライク

adjectival noun:

• perfect (for something or someone); just right; just the way one likes it - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold fast to one's ways; to be overly conservative; to not get with the times; to guard the tree stub [literal] - from a fable appearing in the Han Feizi - idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• morning; a.m.

noun / ~する noun:

• nursing (a patient)

~と adverb / adverb:

• in a row - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• winning (a prize) ➜ 授賞

noun / ~の noun:

• within a school

noun:

• without a vote

noun / ~する noun:

• renting a room

noun / ~する noun:

• winning a lawsuit

noun:

• a third country

noun / ~の noun:

• mere; only a ...

noun / ~する noun:

• a help; assistance