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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。
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。
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.
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。
Lady Otohime gave Urashima Taro a beautiful Tamate-box.
乙姫様は浦島太郎に美しい玉手箱をくれました。
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。
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。
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。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
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 police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.
警察が追っていたのは替え玉で、その間に真犯人を逃してしまった。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
Fried eggs, sunny-side up, easy please.
軽く目玉焼きにでもしてください。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
The bubble burst in the air.
シャボン玉は途中で割れた。
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。
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。
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。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎを切った。
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。
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。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
I come from Saitama.
私は埼玉の出身です。
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。
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。
Her skirt is yellow with polka dots.
彼女のスカートは黄色で水玉模様がついている。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋!鍵屋!
He dashed out like a bullet.
彼は鉄砲玉のように飛び出した。
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
ニッケルは5セント玉です。
There is a river between Saitama and Chiba.
埼玉と千葉の間に川があります。
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
彼女は気が短いのが玉にきずだ。
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.