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Play one's trump card.
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denkanohoutouwonuku
expression, godan verb
  1. to employ one's secret weapon; to play one's trump card; to use the ace up one's sleeve
denkanohoutou
expression, noun
  1. one's last resort; trump card
  2. treasured family sword (orig. meaning)
denka
noun
  1. heirloom; trump card; last resort; family tradition
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
houtou
noun
  1. treasured sword
wo
particle
  1. indicates direct object of action
  2. indicates subject of causative expression
  3. indicates an area traversed
  4. indicates time (period) over which action takes place
  5. indicates point of departure or separation of action
  6. indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
nuku
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to pull out; to draw out; to extract; to unplug; to weed
  2. to omit; to leave out; to go without; to skip
auxiliary verb, godan verb
  1. to do to the end; to carry through
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to let out (e.g. air from a tyre); to drain (e.g. water from a bath); to empty
  2. to pick out; to choose; to select; to extract
  3. to pilfer; to steal
  4. to remove; to get rid of; to take out
  5. to pass; to overtake; to outstrip; to get ahead of
  6. to pierce; to break through; to go through (also written 貫く)
  7. to cut out (a shape); to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
  8. to seize; to capture; to reduce
  9. to scoop (a story)
  10. to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)
godan verb
  1. to masturbate (of a male); to ejaculate (while masturbating)
  2. to take (a photo); to record (video)

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