List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
idiomatic expression vulgar expression or word expression noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- small-minded, petty, cowardly, chicken-hearted
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to make a cutting remark, to stab someone with a short blade
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to bribe
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair), to settle oneself down, to plant oneself
search-only kana form search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to be confused, to be baffled, to be bewitched by a fox
idiomatic expression expression
- person who swaggers about under borrowed authority, small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority, a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger
idiomatic expression rare term expression
- trusting a cat with milk, setting a wolf to mind the sheep, (giving) rice boiled with adzuki beans to a fox
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to make a cutting remark, to kill someone with a short blade
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- having no choice but to carry on, having no choice but to go on, being unable to change one's course of action, (with the) momentum of (a man) riding a tiger
idiomatic expression expression
- (staring) piercingly, (looking) hard