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閑
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quiet place; vacant land; fallow ground; undemanding job; sinecure; life of leisurely retirement
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Formal or literary term; Conjunction
getting back to the subject at hand, ...; (but) to return to the main topic, ...; so much for digressions, ...
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Idiomatic expression
to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business)
Examples
ウチだって閑古鳥が鳴くようなカツカツの状態だから、バイトを雇う余裕なんてない。
We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.
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'taru' adjective
composed and unhurried; easygoing and leisurely; in indolence
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Proverb
an idle brain is the devil's shop
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Proverb
there are brief moments of leisure even when at one's busiest
