Results, one
Showing results 1876-1900:
- 油断大敵【ゆだんたいてき】
expression:
- Unpreparedness is one's greatest enemy; He that is too secure is not safe - four character idiom
- 願ってもない【ねがってもない】願っても無い Inflection
expression / adjective:
- best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent
- 手に余る【てにあまる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable
- 寸進尺退【すんしんしゃくたい】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose - four character idiom
- 耳タコ【みみタコ】耳たこ・耳胼胝【みみたこ】
expression:
- having been told something so often that one is fed up with it - abbreviation - idiom - colloquialism ➜ 耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】
- 娘分【むすめぶん】
noun:
- treating somebody as one's own daughter; someone who is treated as a daughter
- woman who manages geisha (Edo period) - archaism
- 背が立つ【せがたつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)
- 雉も鳴かずば撃たれまい【きじもなかずばうたれまい】
expression:
- avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb
- 一擲千金【いってきせんきん】
expression:
- being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom
- し放題【しほうだい】仕放題・為放題 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- having one's own way; giving free rein to one's desires; acting as one pleases
- 自党【じとう】
noun:
- the political party to which one belongs
地方の党員たちは自党に有利な形の選挙区割りをもくろんでいます。 Local party members are trying to gerrymander the district.
- 奇を衒う【きをてらう】奇をてらう Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to make a display of one's originality (eccentricity); to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)
Kanji
No Kanji in this term
© Based on JMdict, KANJIDIC2, and JMnedict, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used in conformance with the Group's licence. Example sentences from the Tatoeba project (CC BY 2.0). Kanji stroke order data from the KanjiVG project by Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). See comprehensive list of data sources for more info.
Search other dictionaries for one:
Yahoo!辞書 / goo辞書 / alc.co.jp / Weblio / Wiktionary