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He leads you by the nose if you let him.
彼は人を手玉に取ったような扱い方をする。
The coat she wanted was eye-poppingly expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
The coat that she said she wanted was very expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
That's because, you see, I've known he isn't that sort of person from a long time back.
こいつがそんな玉じゃないことなんてとうの昔に解っていたからさ。
His naked back and arms were beaded with sweat.
彼は裸の背中と腕に玉のような汗をかいていた。
The 5 yen coin is made from brass and the 10 yen coin is made from bronze.
5円玉は黄銅、10円玉は青銅でできている。
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
It would only take 100 or 500 yen coins, so I search for change but don't find any.
１００円玉か５００円玉しか使えないので私は小銭を探したが見当たらない。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋！鍵屋！
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
The coat she said she wanted was extremely expensive.
彼女が欲しいって言ってたコート、目の玉が飛び出るほど高かったんだ。
The children were rolling a big snowball.
子供たちが大きな雪の玉を転がしていた。
Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.
彼の額に玉のような汗が出ていた。
What's more she went and ordered a top up of noodles twice.
しかもこの女、２回も替玉しやがった。
I gave her some candy.
私は彼女にアメ玉を出してあげた。
If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
一円玉を水に浮かせ、そこに磁石をゆっくり近づけると、一円玉は磁石に近づく。
He works fast and is very articulate but his insincerity is his biggest defect.
手八丁口八丁の彼だけど、誠がないのが玉に疵だね。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
Rose was blowing bubbles.
ローズはしゃぼん玉を吹いていた。
My father is as bald as a billiard ball.
私の父はビリヤードの玉のように頭がつるつるだ。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎ、切りました。
The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。
There were beads of sweat on his forehead.
彼の額には玉のような汗が浮かんでいた。
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.
Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap-bubble.
私たちの恋は、しゃぼん玉のようにはかなかった。
Her brow was beaded with perspiration.
彼女の額は玉の汗だった。
The employees treat everything the company president says as a golden rule.
社員は皆社長の言を金科玉条としている。
I come from Saitama.
私は埼玉の出身です。
He dashed out like a bullet.
彼は鉄砲玉のように飛び出した。
Every bullet has its billet.
鉄砲玉に当たるも当たらぬもみな運命だ。
The children are blowing bubbles.
子供たちがシャボン玉を吹いている。
My brother was the apple of my father's eye.
父は私の弟を掌中の玉のようにかわいがった。
The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
ボスには玉石混交のグループとは言われたけれど、俺は玉かな、それとも石なのかな。
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.
