List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- for something unexpected to happen (to someone or something one is close to)
- (deciding to do something) abruptly, at the turn of a dime
obsolete reading idiomatic expression expression
- preaching to the deaf, wind (blowing) into a horse's ear
idiomatic expression expression
- putting the cart before the horse, putting the diapers on before (the baby) is born
idiomatic expression expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- neither fish nor fowl, hard to predict, up in the air, unclear
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- hard work gone unnoticed, thankless task, a dance under a veranda
- off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennลji temple
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to hold fast to one's ways, to be overly conservative, to not get with the times, to guard the tree stub
idiomatic expression noun noun (generic)
- feeble anger (that one cannot act on because one is powerless), the clenching teeth of a dried sardine
idiomatic expression rare term expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to do something foolhardy, to braid a tiger's whiskers
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to let a fox into the henhouse, to do something dangerous, to let loose a tiger in the marketplace
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- empty eyes, thousand-yard stare, blank glaze, expressionless look, eyes of a dead fish