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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。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
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。
Her dress is blue with white polka dots.
彼女のドレスは青い地に白の水玉模様がある。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
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。
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。
I come from Saitama.
私は埼玉の出身です。
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。
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.
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。
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 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。
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
ニッケルは５セント玉です。
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。
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。
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。
I gave her some candy.
私は彼女にアメ玉を出してあげた。
"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」
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
艱難汝を玉にす。
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。
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 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。
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。
He blew soap bubbles.
彼はシャボン玉をとばした。
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.
