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油を売る

Hiragana
あぶらをうる
Verb
idiomatic
Japanese Meaning
無駄に時間を過ごすこと、さぼること
Easy Japanese Meaning
仕事をしないで、しゃべったりして、だらだら時間をむだにすること
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He always dawdles in the hallway before meetings, so he nearly missed the start.

What is this buttons?
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(idiomatic) waste time, dawdle

canonical

romanization

stem

past

table-tags

inflection-template

imperfective stem

imperfective stem

imperfective

continuative stem

continuative stem

continuative

stem terminative

stem terminative

terminative

attributive stem

attributive stem

attributive

hypothetical stem

hypothetical stem

hypothetical

imperative stem

imperative stem

imperative

passive

passive

passive

causative

causative

causative

causative

causative

causative

potential

potential

potential

volitional

volitional

volitional

negative

negative

negative

continuative negative

continuative negative

continuative negative

formal

formal

formal

perfective

perfective

perfective

conjunctive

conjunctive

conjunctive

conditional hypothetical

conditional hypothetical

conditional hypothetical

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