Photo Credit: Daniel Conway
While talking to a friend, she mentioned that the Japanese will sometimes day they “slept like mud” after a particularity hard sleep. That got me thinking about other “mud” idioms that the Japanese have. I don’t know if you’ll be happy that I found this one :P
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I’m sure you’re familiar with the English idiom “to beat one’s own drum”, and at first inspection I thought this Japanese idiom was the same thing. But while there’s some similarities, the results are much different.
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At first glance, I had no idea what this Japanese idiom was about. Can you guess what it is? :)
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Here’s another funny Japanese idiom – to pour water into the ear of someone sleeping.
Can you guess what it means? It probably means you need to find better friends :)
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Here’s a fun idiom to describe a rather slippery character. It reminds me of a similar English idiom “he’s a snake in the grass”, but this Japanese idiom has a bit more to do with comparing one snake to another.
Let’s take a look!
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Here’s another fun Japanese idiom that doesn’t really have an English counterpart – to turn one’s body into powder.
Let’s see what it means!
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This is one of the more unusual idioms that I’ve found and we don’t really have a comparable English one. The idiom is around cracking a star and the meaning is not what you think.
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Today’s idiom paints a fun mental picture and is uniquely Japanese. So what exactly is a crying signboard?
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The Japanese idiom we’re going to look at today is also very similar to an English idiom of expressing when two things or people cannot seem to mix or get along. It’s called water and oil.
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We have an idiom in English when we do something stupid and have to face the consequences, it’s called being in the doghouse. The Japanese have a something similar, except it has to do with the temperature of your rice :)
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