to raise one's hands in supplication or surrender: to give up, to quit, to surrender / to strike someone, or to threaten to do so: to raise one's fist, to raise one's hand against someone

Happy New Year (an expression wishing one the best for the next year, used before New Year's Day)

Alternative spelling of 鯖を読む

鯖を読む: manipulate figures to one's advantage, especially one's own age, height, or weight

(figuratively, idiomatic) to make one's preparations after events have already begun: to put the cart before the horse, to start something in the eleventh hour

to do one's level best and leave the rest to God's will; man proposes, God disposes

see Naples and die (nothing compares to the beauty of Naples, so you can die after you've seen it)

to rethink a situation and pull oneself together; to collect oneself

if done badly / perhaps

Synonym of 寝返る