ことわざ・慣用句

日本語のことわざ、四字熟語、慣用句 — JMdict より。

• ある所にはあるあるところにはあるthose who have it (esp. wealth) have it; it does exist (somewhere); there are places where you can find it
• いつまでもあると思うな親と金いつまでもあるとおもうなおやとかねyou cannot rely on parents and money to stay around forever; money comes and goes; so do parents
• うまい話には裏があるうまいはなしにはうらがあるif it sounds too good to be true, it probably is; there's a flip side to every coin
• 一富士二鷹三茄子いちふじにたかさんなすびbest is Fuji, second is a hawk, third is an eggplant (of auspicious things to see in a dream, esp. one's first dream of the year)
• 一銭を笑う者は一銭に泣くいっせんをわらうものはいっせんになくtake care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen
• 下手な考え休むに似たりへたなかんがえやすむににたりit's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all