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麻
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Idiomatic expression
to flatter; to toady (to); to curry favor (with); to butter up; to grind sesame seeds
Examples
あいつ、上司に胡麻を擂ってやがる。
He is buttering up to his boss.
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gomasio; gomashio; roasted sesame seed and salt mixture
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salt-and-pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray
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sycophancy; toadying; apple-polishing; brown-nosing; sycophant; flatterer; toady; apple-polisher; brown-noser; ass-kisser
Examples
ボブは本当にごますりだ。
Bob is really a brown noser.
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sesame seed grinding
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salt and pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray
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ramie (Boehmeria nivea var. nipononivea)
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Urtica thunbergiana (species of stinging nettle)
Examples
バラのとげで刺されるよりは、いらくさのとげで刺された方がましだ。
It is better to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose.
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to cut the Gordian knot
Examples
それは快刀乱麻を断つような解答でした。
That was a 'cutting the Gordian knot' type of solution.
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Medicine
poliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis
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Medicine
cerebral palsy
ごまダレ (胡麻ダレ)胡麻ダレ胡麻だれ胡麻タレ胡麻たれ胡麻垂れごまだれ (胡麻だれ/胡麻垂れ)ごまタレ (胡麻タレ)ごまたれ (胡麻たれ/胡麻垂れ)ゴマダレゴマタレNounUsually kanaFreq #137218
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sesame sauce
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the "ma" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ma, mi, mu, me, mo)
