About 10,000 Japanese men clad only in loincloths braved freezing temperatures at the weekend to pack into a temple and scramble in the dark for lucky wooden talismans tossed into the crowd, in a ritual that dates back five centuries. https://reut.rs/2P06H5I
Ma Ying-jeou has never been wholly trusted to stand up for the de facto independence that most Taiwanese treasure in the face of China’s insistence on unification 2015.11.7
During the Edo Period (1603-1867), when it was a matter of course for common people to wear secondhand clothes, sheds that sold old clothes lined the banks of the Kandagawa river in Yanagiwara, the area from Akihabara to Asakusabashi in present-day Tokyo.
The sheds were enclosed with reed screens. Apparently, some of the merchandise were of such dubious origin that shoppers had no way of knowing what they were before they were remade into something else. An old senryu satirical short poem goes: "In Yanagiwara/ Loincloths turn into hoods." The hood may be warm, but if one knew it used to be someone's underwear, no one would wear it.
The Federal Reserve late Monday revised some of its rules governing bank holding companies, loosening some ownership restrictions as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley seek to shed their status as investment banks.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said he favored a merger of Gaz de France and the energy operations of Suez, implying Suez would have to shed its waste and water units to complete the long-pending deal.
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Urban Dictionary: sold down the river
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A phrase meaning to be betrayed by another. Originated during the slave trade in America. Selling a slave "down the river" would uproot the slave from their from ...
shed (BUILDING)
noun [C]
1 a small building, usually made of wood, used for storing things:
a garden shed
a tool/bicycle shed
2 a large simple building used for a particular activity:
the lambing shed
shed (GET RID OF)
verb [T] shedding, shed, shed
1 (often used in newspapers) to get rid of something you do not need or want:
900 jobs will be shed over the next few months.
Psychotherapy helped him to shed some of his insecurity/inhibitions.
I'm going on a diet to see if I can shed (= become thinner by losing) a few kilos.
2 to lose a covering, such as leaves, hair or skin, because it falls off naturally, or to drop something in a natural or accidental way:
The trees shed their leaves in autumn.
They ran down to the sea, shedding clothes as they went.
UK A lorry had shed a load of gravel across the road.
━━ v. （shed; -dd-） （涙・血を）流す; （光を）放つ ((on)); 与える; （雨水などを）はじく; （服・皮・殻などを）脱ぎすてる, 脱皮［換羽・脱毛・落葉］する; （羽・角を）落とす; 取り除く; 〔英〕 積み荷を過って落とす; こぼれる.
shed one's blood 血を流す, 死ぬ ((for)). shed the blood of … / shed …'s blood 人を殺す, 人を傷つける.loin・cloth
下帯, 腰布, ふんどし.
⇒loin
⇒loin
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