List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
idiomatic expression expression
- while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive), as long as one lives
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) colloquial idiomatic expression
- to spread one's legs
- to agree to have sex (for a woman)
idiomatic expression jocular, humorous term expression
- I wish the same for myself
idiomatic expression expression
- wasting one's breath (trying to explain something), (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to get along, to hit it off, to be on the same page, to work well together, to synchronize
colloquial idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to make a pass at, to hit on, to call out to (in an attempt to seduce)
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to break up and start anew, to break out of one's shell, to make a fresh start, to go outside oneself
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- street prostitute
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- fighting over nothing, making a mountain out of a molehill
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does), a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit)