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1 exact word match found in search '如し'
Most common form: 若し
auxiliary verb
like; as if; the same as  (see also: 如き)
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5 words found containing '如し' in any position
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in crowds (of spectators); in great numbers  (rare)
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extremely indigent; extremely poor; in dire poverty; as poor as a church mouse
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like sweat cannot return inside the body, the word of an emperor cannot be unsaid  (proverb)
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hide your true strength, and then later swiftly attack the unprepared enemy; first be like a (meek) virgin, later like a running hare  (from Sun Tzu's Art of War; proverb)
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friendships between wise men are plain and hence rock solid  (from the Zhuangzi; proverb)
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