Results, #idiom
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- 重箱の隅をほじくる【じゅうばこのすみをほじくる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to nitpick; to complain about trifles - idiom ➜ 重箱の隅をつつく
- 目の中に入れても痛くない【めのなかにいれてもいたくない】
expression:
- thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom
- 絵になる【えになる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture - idiom
expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:
- picture-perfect; picturesque - idiom
- やきもちを焼く【やきもちをやく】焼きもちを焼く・やきもちを妬く・焼餅を焼く・焼きもちを妬く・焼もちを焼く・焼餅を妬く・焼もちを妬く Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to be jealous - idiom
- 頭が下がる【あたまがさがる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to admire greatly; to salute (in admiration); to take one's hat off to - idiom
- うだつの上がらない【うだつのあがらない】卯建のあがらない Inflection
expression / adjective:
- lacking potential for advancement; no-hoper - idiom ➜ うだつが上がらない
- 気の荒い【きのあらい】 Inflection
expression / adjective:
- bad-tempered; aggressive; quarrelsome - idiom ➜ 気が荒い
- 手の早い【てのはやい】 Inflection
adjective:
- fast working - idiom ➜ 手が早い
- fast in forming relationships with women - idiom
- quick to resort to violence - idiom
- 能無し犬の高吠え【のうなしいぬのたかぼえ】能なし犬の高吠え
expression / noun:
- jealous complaint; the loud bark of a talentless dog [literal] - idiom
- 無駄骨を折る【むだぼねをおる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to waste one's efforts; to work to no (useful) effect - obscure term - idiom
- ツーカーの仲【ツーカーのなか】
expression:
- on such good terms as to know what each other is thinking - apparently from 通過の仲 - idiom
- 心胆を寒からしめる【しんたんをさむからしめる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to make a person's blood run cold - idiom ➜ 寒からしめる
- 目から鱗の落ちる【めからうろこのおちる】目からウロコの落ちる【めからウロコのおちる】目からうろこの落ちる【めからうろこのおちる】
expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:
- revelatory - idiom ➜ 目から鱗が落ちる
目からうろこの落ちる思いです。 The scales have fallen from my eyes.
- 神も仏もない【かみもほとけもない】
expression:
- there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom
- 飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢い【とぶとりをおとすいきおい】
expression:
- great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight [literal] - idiom
- 身が入る【みがはいる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to give one's everything; to make one's best effort; to be enthused; to put your back into it - idiom
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