(n) the seniority system
(adj-i) unbecoming
unsuitable
wrong for one's age
disgraceful
(adj-i) unbecoming
unsuitable
wrong for one's age
disgraceful
(exp) time to pay the piper
lit: time to pay the land tax (in kind)
(n) annual paid vacation
(adj-f) of tender years
very young
(adj-f) of tender years
very young
(exp) Y2K compliant
(n) Y2K bug
year 2000 problem
(n) (obsc) Hitler Youth
(exp) happy new year
(exp) (id) Life is short
(exp) perseverance prevails (lit: even the coldest rock will get warm if sat on for three years)
(n) notification for compulsory retirement
(exp) it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions (lit: planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, plums take eight)
(adj-i) of tender years
very young
(adj-i) of tender years
very young
(n) (comp) year of recording
(exp) a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband
a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
(n) The older, the wiser
(exp) (id) Boys, be ambitious
(exp) Cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years
(exp) to count age in full
(n) years spent idly
(n) the failed Meiji-14 coup of 1881
(exp) Y2K compliant
(exp) (id) Time and tide wait for no man
(n) (comp) Year 2000 problem
(n) radiocarbon dating
carbon-14 dating
(n) (obsc) Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
