横道よこみち (yokomichi)

side street

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横道 (よこみち, yokomichi) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “side street”.

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Example sentences 7

彼女かのじょはなしはいつも 横道よこみちにそれます

She always wanders off topic when she talks.

また酒で動きを封じられ、ある意味だまし討ちをしてきた頼光らに対して童子は「鬼に横道はない」と頼光を激しくののしったとも言われる。

It tells that Shuten Doji told Yorimitsu and his fellows that 'an oni never cheats' and severely swore at them for making him drunk and off guard before he was beaten.

しかし、天正3年(1575年)9月には毛利方が私都城を攻略し、古くからの尼子遺臣であった横道兄弟・森脇久仍・牛尾大炊助らが毛利氏に降るという事態が発生した。

In September 1575, however, Mori forces captured Kisaichi-jo Castle, which resulted in the surender of the Yokoji brothers, Hisayori MORIWAKI, Oinosuke USHIO, and other members of the Amago Remnant Corps who had long been in the service of the Amago clan, to the Mori clan.

その横道は、少なくともその当時リトルカレッジストリートと呼ばれていて、今はどうなっているのか知らないが、荒れ果てたというにふさわしい、草っ原や溝ばかりのところだったよ。

which is, or was at that time, called Little College Street, and which, whatever it may be now, was in those days a desolate place enough, surrounded by little else than fields and ditches.