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
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
making arbitrary decisions which benefit oneself; self-approved plan
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
faith is mysterious; faith is weird; (lit.) even a pilchard's head (can be revered) through faith
way of thinking; thought pattern; thinking pattern
Hard Times (The Streetfighter) (film)
to cause to embrace; to combine; to conjoin; to sell strong-selling products and poorly selling products together as a package
generally; overall; across the board; as a whole
to say repeatedly; to say proverbially
self-inflicted accident; traffic accident where injury is caused by one's own negligence; one-car accident
to fill in time; to stall (e.g. an audience)
bad things happen to those who attempt things; (lit.) if a dog walks they will hit a stick; good luck may come unexpectedly
being dissolute and unruly; ruining oneself by leading a fast life