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- 一寸の虫にも五分の魂【いっすんのむしにもごぶのたましい】
expression:
- tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb
- のさばる Inflection
godan ~る verb:
- to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way
- 風声鶴唳【ふうせいかくれい】
noun:
- getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom
- 墓穴を掘る【ぼけつをほる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it; to dig your own grave - idiom
- 親元を離れる【おやもとをはなれる】親もとを離れる・親許を離れる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to leave one's home (behind one); to leave one's parental roof; to leave the nest; to be out on one's own
- 自切【じせつ】
noun:
- autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator
- 陰陽師身の上知らず【おんようじみのうえしらず】
expression:
- people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; a fortune teller can't tell their own future [literal] - proverb
- 易者身の上知らず【えきしゃみのうえしらず】
expression:
- people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; a fortune teller can't tell their own future [literal] - proverb
- 太刀打ち出来る【たちうちできる】太刀打ちできる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own - often in neg.
- 天が下【あまがした・あめがした】
noun:
- the whole country; the public; the world; the ruling power; having one's own way
- 自分勝手☆【じぶんかって・じぶんがって】自分かって【じぶんかって】 Inflection
noun / adjectival noun:
- selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases; one's own free will - four character idiom
- 女房★【にょうぼう・にょうぼ・にゅうぼうobs.】
noun:
- wife (esp. one's own wife)
- court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace [にょうぼう・にゅうぼう]
- woman (esp. as a love interest) [にょうぼう・にゅうぼう] - archaism
女房は店員さんより一回り小さい手だ。 My wife's hands are slightly smaller than the shop assistant's.
- 絶対数【ぜったいすう】
noun:
- number (on its own, without considering its proportion to the whole); overall number
- 災いを転じて福となす【わざわいをてんじてふくとなす】禍を転じて福となす・禍を転じて福と為す・災いを転じて福と為す Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage - idiom ➜ 災い転じて福となす【わざわいてんじてふくとなす】
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