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to be preoccupied with responding; to be busy dealing with (e.g. enquiries)
Proverb
do not pursue those who leave you and do not turn away those who come to you
Proverb
take care of yourself before you take care of others; wave off your own flies before you wave off someone else's flies
Proverb
one cannot escape from one's worldly desires; the hounds of earthly desires would return each time they are driven away
Idiomatic expression
completely helpless; unable even to drive away the flies on one's own head
Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
The Hunt for Red October (1984 novel by Tom Clancy)
Historical term
inuoumono; Kamakura-period sport in which horseback-mounted archers shot at dogs inside a large circular enclosure
Historical term
expulsion of a public official and subsequent ban on participating in politics (by the SCAP during the allied occupation); purge
Historical term
female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts
Rare term
Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)