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襤
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Common noun
rag; old cloth
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Common noun
tattered clothes; ragged clothes; rags
Examples
その男はボロを着ていた。
The man was in rags.
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Common noun
fault (one is trying to hide); defect; weakness
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Noun or verb acting prenominally; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
worn-out; run-down; shabby; ragged; tattered
Examples
ぼろ服が正直者を包んでいるかもしれない。
A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
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to have one's faults exposed; to have one's secrets blown
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to expose one's faults; to have one's defects exposed; to show oneself up
Examples
あいつでかいことばかり言ってるけど、そのうちぼろを出すよ。
He's always talking like a big shot, but it won't be long before all his faults are exposed.
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Colloquial
worn-out; run-down; beat-up; shabby; dilapidated
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fireweed (Erechtites hieracifolia); burnweed; pilewort
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red-flower ragleaf (Crassocephalum crepidioides); redflower ragleaf
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run-down shabby house
Examples
その家はかなりぼろ屋になっている。
The house is quite run down.
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Archaic
rag and scrap merchant
