List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
idiomatic expression expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- not to be spoken of in the same breath, cannot be compared, defying all comparison, bearing no comparison, not a same-day discussion
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to hoist one's sail when the wind is fair, to get one's time to shine
idiomatic expression expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- harmless but pointless, neither bad nor good
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- temptation one can't resist, setting a wolf to mind the sheep, trusting a cat with milk
rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression
- the heat is off, things calm down, the excitement dies down
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to be extremely cautious, to be as sure as sure can be, to make assurance doubly sure
idiomatic expression noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- boasting of one's humility
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to have one's kindness taken advantage of, give him an inch and he'll take a mile, to lend out the eaves but have one's whole house taken
- to have a favor returned with spite
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- rushing to one's doom, (like a) moth flying into the flame
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to have one's knees be about to give way