List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
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- paying for one's mistakes, getting one's just deserts, suffering the consequences (of one's own actions), reaping what you sow, making a rod for one's own back
irregular kanji usage search-only kanji form expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) idiomatic expression
- to pour water (into), to dilute with water
- to hinder, to hamper, to throw cold water on, to put a damper on, to estrange (people)
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- drop in the bucket, pittance, chicken feed, insignificant amount, sparrow tears
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to take care of someone, to look after someone, to help
- to give help where it isn't wanted, to be officious, to bother, to meddle, to interfere
irregular kanji usage search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- a bolt out of the blue
noun noun (generic) idiomatic expression
- blue sky
- skyrocketing (of prices), having no limit, the sky being the limit
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression noun noun (generic)
- outburst of cicadas singing, chorus of cicadas
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- a jewel in a dunghill
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to exceed the budget, to overrun the budget, to have a deficit, to go into the red
- to have a secret revealed
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) archaic
- to be traced (of a criminal), to be tracked
- to have a (male) lover