棒

Proverb

you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope

wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayuura divination

pestle

Idiomatic expression; Non-standard variant of 箸にも棒にもかからない

hopeless; incorrigible; beyond repair; good-for-nothing; terrible

Idiomatic expression

the embers of a former relationship flare up again; old love blazes anew

Proverb

starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught

Mahjong

rīchi bet; scoring stick wagered and placed in the center of the game table by a player after declaring rīchi

bar thermometer

preaching burglar; burglar who preaches at the victim about the methods of preventing similar crimes

metal rod in a wooden plane which holds the chip breaker against the blade

Idiomatic expression

exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill

Idiomatic expression; Usu. as 足を棒にして

to walk one's legs off; to walk until one's legs feel like lead; to walk to the point of exhaustion

rod-like molecule

pole used to hand things up a ladder

piston rod

nuclear fuel rod; nuclear rod

Proverb; Said to justify picking flowers from others' gardens, parks, etc.

it is no crime to steal flowers

gutweed (Ulva intestinalis); grass kelp

kleptocracy

kleptocrat

pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends

Proverb

a starved dog does not fear the rod

hex key; hexagonal wrench key; Allen key (TM); Allen wrench (TM)

cattle prod