Results, subordinate
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- トカゲの尻尾切り【トカゲのしっぽきり・トカゲのしっぽぎり】とかげの尻尾切り・蜥蜴の尻尾切り【とかげのしっぽきり・とかげのしっぽぎり】
expression:
- evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom
- 鶏口牛後【けいこうぎゅうご】
expression:
- better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom
- 下位★【かい】
noun / ~の noun:
- low rank; lower position; subordinate position; lower order (e.g. byte)
彼は組んだ下位候補者が悪かったので落選しました。 He was dropped because of his running mate.
- 身に覚えのある【みにおぼえのある】身に覚えの有る
expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:
- to have the memory of having done something oneself (subordinate phrase) ➜ 身に覚えがある
だれか身に覚えのある人がいるんじゃないか。 There's somebody here who did it, isn't there?
- 太刀持ち【たちもち】太刀持
noun:
- sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
- rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term
- の☆
particle:
- indicates possessive - occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之 ➜ 乃
- nominalizes verbs and adjectives
- substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases ➜ が
- (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion - often ん
- (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis - female language
- (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
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