weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall; mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside
butt hair; buttock hair; ass hair
tail (animal); tail end; tip
backward glance; sidelong glance; faceless ghost with an eye in its rump
recoil; hesitation; flinching; shrinking back
cleaning up somebody else's mess; carrying the can; ass-wiping; arse-wiping
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
spanking; traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, is hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility
rising intonation; upward inflection; rising tendency; upward trend; feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar
tucking up the hem of one's garments
object cut off at the end; sudden, abrupt ending
pushing from behind; backing; supporting; instigation; instigator
buttocks of a horse being ridden or followed; blind imitation
tucking up the hem of one's garments
writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips)
Laminaria ochotensis (species of kelp)
attenuating; fizzling out
falling intonation; downward trend
spanking the bottom; spanking
forgetfulness; leaving things unfinished
slowcoach; lazybones; slowpoke
hiding one's mistakes (or wrongdoings, etc.); back pocket
black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis, small species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); freckled monitor
there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; (lit.) squeezing your buttocks after you have farted
there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; (lit.) squeezing your buttocks after you have farted
incontinence; promiscuity
being a guest for too long (e.g. of a neighbor)
the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
put your household shrine in a high position in the front of the house and your Buddhist altar in the back
the part of a province furthest from the capital