List: idiomatic expression
Expressions, words, or phrases that have a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers.
idiomatic expression card games mahjong expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- being dealt a bad hand
- poor (handwriting)
- unscrupulous
abbreviation idiomatic expression colloquial expression
- having been told something so often that one is fed up with it
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to take someone by surprise, to startle someone, to pull (someone's) buttock hair
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward, Benkei's last stand
ateji idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- looking on from afar, being a spectator
idiomatic expression expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to get (someone's) help, to ask for help
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to keep one's feet on the ground, to be down to earth
rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form idiomatic expression usually written using kana alone expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to depend on someone else's (financial) support (usu. one's parents')
idiomatic expression expression noun noun (generic)
- sponging off one's parents
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- what a joke!, don't make me laugh!
- to split one's sides laughing, to be convulsed with laughter, to boil tea with one's navel (using the heat generated by laughing)