List: expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)
Words or phrases, used to convey an idea.
expression noun noun (generic)
- the slightest bit of room, room to stand a gimlet (on its end)
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more, giving someone an inch and having them take a mile, taking Gansu only to want Sichuan
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to fail one step short of great success, to fall at the last hurdle
expression
- early to bed early to rise
expression
- it is wiser to make money steadily over time, light gains make heavy purse, better small takings than a large win
search-only kanji form idiomatic expression expression
- intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself, going for wool and coming home shorn, the biter bit, the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy
expression
- to the core, to the bone, to the marrow
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to suffer from hunger
proverb expression
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone honorific language polite language archaic expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) copula
- be, is