持てあます – Vocabulary details

持もてあます

Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)

1. to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

これが毎まい日にちとなると、間ま違ちがいなく持もて余あます。If this were to happen every day, it would undoubtedly be too much to handle.

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being popular (esp. with the opposite sex); being well-liked

to save; to leave over; to spare

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