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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 prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
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。
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 chopped some onions.
玉ねぎ、切りました。
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。
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。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
The boss bawled me out.
主人に大目玉を食った。
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。
Fried eggs, sunny-side up, easy please.
軽く目玉焼きにでもしてください。
Beads of sweat stood on his forehead.
彼の額に玉のような汗が出ていた。
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。
This soup tastes of onions.
このスープは玉ねぎの味がする。
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。
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
Galileo dropped two iron balls from the top of the tower.
ガリレオは二つの鉄の玉を塔のてっぺんから落とした。
Her dress has white spots on a blue background.
彼女のドレスは青い地に白の水玉模様がある。
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
彼女は気が短いのが玉にきずだ。
Rose was blowing bubbles.
ローズはしゃぼん玉を吹いていた。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋！鍵屋！
My hamster has a swollen testicle on one side.
ハムスターの金玉が片方肥大しています。
Tom and Mary are playing in the park making soap bubbles.
トムとメアリーは公園でシャボン玉を飛ばして遊んでいる。
Every bullet has its billet.
鉄砲玉に当たるも当たらぬもみな運命だ。
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.
Fred has very little patience, and it doesn't take much to make him fly off the handle.
フレッドには忍耐心というものがまるでないから、彼のカンシャク玉を破裂させるのはわけもない。
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
ニッケルは５セント玉です。
Why do the five yen coin and the fifty yen coin have holes in the center?
どうして五円玉と五十円玉の真ん中に穴があいているの？
The checked player must find a way for the king to escape and block the check.
王手をかけられたほうは、玉を逃げるなどの方法で王手を防がねばなりません。
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.
