List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
irregular kanji usage idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- excessive envy (of someone in much the same position as oneself), envy of a leper's pockmarks
idiomatic expression rare term expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to hurriedly prepare one's home for guests, to clean one's garden with a mallet
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) idiomatic expression archaic
- to commit seppuku, to commit harakiri
- to take responsibility (and resign)
- to laugh until one splits one's side
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to do something impossible, to disembowel oneself with a pestle
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to do something impossible, to disembowel oneself with a ladle
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean, one grain of millet in a vast ocean
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- crow's feet (wrinkles)
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to make a blunder, to blunder, to have one's kettle stolen on a moonlit night
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to go from (using, etc.) something bad to something good, to change (from riding) a cow to (riding) a horse
idiomatic expression expression
- being ignorant of the ways of the world, knowing nothing, not being able to tell if a yam is boiled or not