selling out before the price drops (usu. shares); selling at the top of the market
bus clock; bath clock; bathroom clock
Honesty is the best policy; Honesty pays
to give an address (before a large number of people); to give a forceful speech
neighbourhood dispute (neighborhood); neighbourhood quarrel; grievance with one's neighbour
(kanji) not in the jōyō set
when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham's Law)
Concorde fallacy; Concorde effect; sunk cost fallacy
knowing when to give up; good at letting things go; accepting failure with good grace; being a good loser
accidents frequent; accident-prone zone; accident blackspot
daruma otoshi; toy consisting of vertically stacked wooden blocks that must be knocked away without letting the daruma doll on top fall to the ground
to reason with (a person)
stubbornness; pigheaded person; miser
lucky; fortunate; timely; convenient
going in and out of style; changes in fashion
Japanese cypress wood bathtub; hinoki tub
shoryuken (uppercut move in the Street Fighter series)
naming right; naming rights
making arbitrary decisions which benefit oneself; self-approved plan
cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation
paying loan installments whenever one happens to have money (instalments)
there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave
height (of a building, etc.); height (of a person, thing, etc.)
tie-in sale; product bundle
to fail an exam; to fall (of cherry blossom petals)
to popularize; to popularise; to give currency to; to set a trend
ship of Theseus; Theseus's paradox
street gossips and idle rumors
faith is mysterious; faith is weird; (lit.) even a pilchard's head (can be revered) through faith