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"Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again?" "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."
「委員長、後は何を運ぶんだっけ？」「得点板と大玉もう一個、綱引きの綱」
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。
I chopped some onions.
玉ねぎを切った。
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。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
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 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。
Every bullet has its billet.
鉄砲玉に当たるも当たらぬもみな運命だ。
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.
