My words

豪放磊落

ごうほうらいらく

broadminded

呂律

ろれつ

articulation

通牒

つうちょう

notice, notification, memorandum, circular

種苗

しゅびょう

seeds and seedlings, eggs and hatchlings, (fish) eggs and fry

百姓家

ひゃくしょうや ひゃくしょうか

farmers home

時は金なり

ときはかねなり

time is money

馬鈴薯澱粉

ばれいしょでんぷん

potato starch

未亡人

みぼうじん

widow

宙ぶらりん

ちゅうぶらりん

dangling, hanging, suspended pending, half done, in limbo, indecisive

共々

ともども

together, in company

虫のいい

むしのいい

selfish

急逝

きゅうせい

sudden death

粘り勝ち

Nebarigachi

Persistence wins

御払い箱

おはらいばこ ごはらいばこ

discarding, firing (an employee)

べらべら

non-stop talking, speaking indiscreetly, chattering thin, flimsy

食い気味

Kui-gimi

Feeling like eating

背に腹はかえられない

せにはらはかえられない

not able to escape an urgent problem without making some sacrifice

通り魔

とおりま

random attacker, e.g. person who randomly attacks people on the street, slasher demon who brings misfortune to houses or people he passes by

古惚ける

ふるぼける いにしえほうける

to look old, to become musty, to wear out

癲癇

てんかん

epilepsy, epileptic fit

蒸留

じょうりゅう

distillation

ほじくり返す

Hojikuri kaesu

pick and repeat

穿り返す

ほじくりかえす

to dig up, to expose, to disclose

ほじくり出す

Hojikuri dasu

dig out

貪り食う

むさぼりくう

to devour greedily, to wolf down, to gobble up

冷やかし

ひやかし

teasing, chaffing, raillery, ridicule, jeering merely asking the price, just looking at goods, window-shopping, browsing

もののたとえ

Monono tatoe

analogy of things

括れ

くびれ くくれ

constriction, narrow part (in middle) waist (esp. of a woman)