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虚勢を張る【きょせいをはるkyoseiwoharu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to bluff; to act brave
元も子もない【もともこもないmotomokomonai】本も子もない: expression:
losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal
気が多い【きがおおいkigaooi】 Inflection: expression / adjective:
fickle ➜ 気の多い
大は小を兼ねる【だいはしょうをかねるdaihashouwokaneru】: expression:
the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small - proverb
目じゃない【めじゃないmejanai】: expression:
no big deal; no match; not worth worrying about
腹を括る【はらをくくるharawokukuru】腹をくくる Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to prepare oneself for the worst; to strengthen one's resolve; to accept one's fate; to prepare oneself - idiom
目くじらを立てる【めくじらをたてるmekujirawotateru】 Inflection: expression / ichidan verb:
to scold over a minor matter
信じようと信じまいと【しんじようとしんじまいとshinjiyoutoshinjimaito】: expression:
believe it or not
腕が鳴る【うでがなるudeganaru】腕がなる Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to be itching to put one's skills to use
体よく断る【ていよくことわるteiyokukotowaru】体良く断る Inflection: expression / godan ~る verb:
to turn someone down (on some pretext) without offending them; to refuse gracefully; to decline politely
来週の今日【らいしゅうのきょうraishuunokyou】: expression / noun:
this day next week; today week; a week from today; 来週の今日raishuunokyouお会いoai しますshimasu。 I'll see you a week from today.
あるらしいarurashii: expression:
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
功を奏する【こうをそうするkouwosousuru】効を奏する^irr. Inflection: expression / ~する verb (spec.):
to succeed; to bear fruit
変わりない【かわりないkawarinai】: expression:
no change; no difference ➜ 変わりなく
accidents or incidents; no unusual events ➜ お変わりありませんか
精神一到何事か成らざらん【せいしんいっとうなにごとかならざらんseishin'ittounanigotokanarazaran】: expression:
Where there is a will, there is a way
尾羽打ち枯らす【おはうちからすohauchikarasu】尾羽うち枯らす Inflection: expression / godan ~す verb:
to be in a miserable state; to be down and out
片を付ける・片をつける【かたをつけるkatawotsukeru】カタを付ける【カタをつけるKATAwotsukeru】方を付ける・方をつける【かたをつけるkatawotsukeru】 Inflection: expression / ichidan verb:
to settle (a problem) ➜ 片付ける
渇しても盗泉の水を飲まず【かっしてもとうせんのみずをのまずkasshitemotousennomizuwonomazu】: expression:
better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb
立錐の余地【りっすいのよちrissuinoyochi】: expression:
room to breathe (usually in the negative as "no room to breathe") ➜ 立錐の余地もない
隴を得て蜀を望む【ろうをえてしょくをのぞむrouwoeteshokuwonozomu】 Inflection: expression / godan ~む verb:
never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more; giving someone an inch and having them take a mile; taking Gansu only to want Sichuan [literal] - idiom
九仞の功を一簣に虧く【きゅうじんのこうをいっきにかくkyuujinnokouwoikkinikaku】 Inflection: expression / godan ~く verb:
to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle - idiom
早寝早起き【はやねはやおきhayanehayaoki】早ね早おき・早ね早起き: expression:
early to bed early to rise
大取りより小取り【おおとりよりことりootoriyorikotori】: expression:
it is wiser to make money steadily over time; light gains make heavy purse; better small takings than a large win [literal]
ミイラ取りがミイラになる【ミイラとりがミイラになるMIIRAtorigaMIIRAninaru】: expression:
intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself; going for wool and coming home shorn; the biter bit; the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy [literal] - idiom
骨の髄まで【ほねのずいまでhonenozuimade】骨のずいまで: expression:
to the core; to the bone; to the marrow [literal]

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