List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
idiomatic expression expression
- come hell or high water
idiomatic expression expression noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- revelatory
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- not mince matters, not mince one's words
idiomatic expression expression suru verb verb (generic)
- to come to nothing, to go down the drain, to go up in smoke
idiomatic expression expression
- there is no God!, it's a cruel world, there is no god or Buddha
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- something appearing from a place one wouldn't expect, something said as a joke actually happening, a horse from a gourd
- something impossible, something ridiculous
idiomatic expression expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- avoided by everybody, disliked by everybody, not even a dog will eat (it)
idiomatic expression expression
- great vigor, tremendous energy, forceful enough to knock down birds in flight
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to give one's everything, to make one's best effort, to be enthused, to put your back into it
idiomatic expression colloquial expression
- like water off a duck's back, urine on a frog's face