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Hito no Furi mite Wa-ga Furi Naose (人の振り見て我が振り直せ)

09/30/201910/01/2019 Toru 0 Comments behavior, learn, look, negative exemplar, person, what not to do, what to do

Hito no Furi mite Wa-ga Furi Naose 人の振り見て我が振り直せ The day before yesterday, I introduced the idiom hanmen kyōshi (反面教師), which

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Namaiki (生意気 – Impudent/Insolent)

07/17/2019 Toru 0 Comments attitude, halfway, impudent, insolent, lukewarm, person, speaking, truth, young

Namaiki 生意気 Previously, I introduced the term sharakusai (しゃらくさい), which means “impudent” or “insolent.” 私は以前、”impudent” や “isolent” を意味する「しゃらくさい」という言葉を紹介しました。 To tell

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Sagasu (さがす – Searching)

07/06/201907/06/2019 Toru 0 Comments find, get, hunt, job, lost, missing, missing person, person, search, see, someone, treasure, wallet

Sagasu さがす The most common Japanese verb meaning “to search” is sagasu (さがす), but it has two notation ways by

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Ninin Sankyaku (二人三脚 – Cooperating with One Another)

06/12/2019 Toru 0 Comments cooperate, leg, participant, people, person, purpose, race, runner, strap, three, three-legged race, two

Ninin Sankyaku 二人三脚 We say ninin sankyaku (二人三脚) to describe that two people sharing the same purpose cooperate. 誰かと二人で協力して物事に取り組むことを、「二人三脚」と表現することがあります。 Ni

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Gobu Gobu (五分五分 – Half and Half)

03/12/2019 Toru 0 Comments 100%, 50%, 99%, even, five, half, half and half, person, priority, probability, thing, unit

Gobu Gobu 五分五分 Yesterday, I introduced you to the four-character idiom ‘kubu kurin‘ (九分九厘), which means that a probability or

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Mukuchi (無口 – Having Few Words)

12/23/2018 Toru 0 Comments few words, mouth, nothing, person, talk, talk a lot, talk little

Mukuchi 無口 Yesterday, I introduced you to the Japanese ‘oshaberi‘ (おしゃべり), which means to talk a lot about something. 昨日は、口数多く話すことを意味する「おしゃべり」という言葉を紹介しました。