expression:

• like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

expression / adjective:

• With the best will in the world, you can't say that it's good

expression / noun:

• pretext for not revealing something (e.g. actual reason for one's failure, vested interest, etc.)

noun:

• children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down

noun:

• permanent edition; timeless edition; collector's version; only issue of non-regularly printed magazine or mook

expression / adjective:

• all bark and no bite; unable to live up to one's claims

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) ➜ ブラコン

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

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

expression:

• no matter how lovingly raised, a foster child is not actually one's biological child - proverb - obscure term

expression:

• faith is mysterious; through faith, even something trivial (like a pilchard's head) seems valuable - proverb

noun:

• taking food directly from a communal dish with one's own chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 取り箸

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• adding a product line or department to improve a store's performance - From English "line robbing"

noun:

• battle standard decorated with hanging strips of paper or leather
• fireman's standard (Edo period)

noun:

• non-return-to-zero change-on-ones recording; NRZ-1; non-return-to-zero (mark) recording; NRZ(M) - IT term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles

noun:

• before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet ➜ 仏前
• offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to understand everything from only one part; to be perceptive; to be quick to understand; to be quick on the uptake - idiom

noun:

• ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples
• rice dance; rice festival
• tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 田楽焼き
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides - abbreviation ➜ 田楽返し

noun:

• Protectorate General; Han- and Tang-period Chinese office established to pacify and control peoples on the frontier (during the Tang period, six major Protectorate Generals were established) ➜ 都護・西域都護府・安東都護府・安南都護府・安西都護府・燕然都護府・単于都護府・北庭都護府

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be idle; to slacken

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to neglect (e.g. one's work) ➜ 怠る

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat

godan ~く verb:

• to skin (one's knee); to graze; to scratch