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言葉を失う【ことばをうしなうkotobawoushinau】 Inflection: expression / godan ~う verb:
to become speechless; to be at a loss for words - idiom
洟も引っ掛けない【はなもひっかけないhanamohikkakenai】洟も引っかけない・はなも引っかけない Inflection: expression / adjective:
ignoring someone completely - idiom
口を切る【くちをきるkuchiwokiru】口をきる Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to be the first to speak; to break the silence - idiom
to open something for the first time; to broach (e.g. a cask); to break a seal; to break open
仇を恩で報いる【あだをおんでむくいるadawoondemukuiru】 Inflection: expression / ichidan verb:
to repay meanness with kindness - idiom
油に水【あぶらにみずaburanimizu】: expression:
incompatible; (going together) like oil and water - idiom
炒り豆に花が咲く【いりまめにはながさくirimamenihanagasaku】 Inflection: expression / godan ~く verb:
to come alive (once again); to spring back into life - idiom
天使が通る【てんしがとおるtenshigatooru】 Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to have a break in the conversation; to experience an awkward silence; an angel passes [literal] - from the French 'un ange pass' - idiom
二兎を追う【にとをおうnitowoou】 Inflection: expression / godan ~う verb:
to chase after two hares; to try and do two things at the same time - idiom ➜ 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず
俎上の魚【そじょうのうおsojounouo】: expression / noun:
being in a helpless situation; (like a) fish on a chopping board [literal] - idiom
年寄りの冷や水【としよりのひやみずtoshiyorinohiyamizu】: expression / noun:
an old man's indiscretions - used as an admonishment to old people to not do dangerous things - idiom
娘一人に婿八人【むすめひとりにむこはちにんmusumehitorinimukohachinin】: expression:
being besieged by suitors; to be popular; eight suitors for one daughter [literal] - idiom
眉毛を読まれる【まゆげをよまれるmayugewoyomareru】 Inflection: expression / ichidan verb:
to be read like an open book; to be seen through - idiom
小鼻をうごめかす【こばなをうごめかすkobanawougomekasu】小鼻を蠢かす Inflection: expression / godan ~す verb:
to put on a triumphant air - idiom
小鼻を膨らます【こばなをふくらますkobanawofukuramasu】小鼻をふくらます Inflection: expression / godan ~す verb:
to look displeased; to flare one's nostrils [literal] - idiom
猿猴月を取る【えんこうつきをとるenkoutsukiwotoru】 Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月
目に立つ【めにたつmenitatsu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~つ verb:
to be conspicuous; to stand out - idiom
哀毀骨立【あいきこくりつaikikokuritsu】: noun:
losing weight and becoming bony because of grief - four character idiom
猿猴捉月【えんこうそくげつenkousokugetsu】: noun:
trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey trying to catch the moon (and drowning) [literal] - four character idiom
下駄の雪【げたのゆきgetanoyuki】: expression / noun:
hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal [literal] - usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government - idiom - derogatory term
肉を切らせて骨を断つ【にくをきらせてほねをたつnikuwokirasetehonewotatsu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~つ verb:
to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom
肉を切らせて骨を切る【にくをきらせてほねをきるnikuwokirasetehonewokiru】 Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom
燕雀安んぞ鴻鵠の志を知らんや【えんじゃくいずくんぞこうこくのこころざしをしらんやenjakuizukunzokoukokunokokorozashiwoshiran'ya】: expression:
only a hero can understand a hero; swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans [literal] - proverb - four character idiom
呉牛月に喘ぐ【ごぎゅうつきにあえぐgogyuutsukiniaegu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~ぐ verb:
to be overanxious; to worry needlessly - idiom
舟に刻して剣を求む【ふねにこくしてけんをもとむfunenikokushitekenwomotomu】: expression:
to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom
剣を落として舟を刻む【けんをおとしてふねをきざむkenwootoshitefunewokizamu】: expression:
to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - idiom

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