Useful Everyday Japanese Phrases
Translated from the Vietnamese original. View the original.
A collection of useful everyday phrases you won't find in textbooks!
❶ 炎上する(えんじょう):TO BE FLAMED (on the Internet)
✍️定義:インターネット上でブログや投稿などの失言に対し、非難や中傷の書き込みが届いて集中すること。
=> Refers to a torrent of abuse and criticism aimed at someone's blog or post on the internet because of a misjudged or offensive remark.
❷ 袋叩き ふくろだたき: TO BE SET UPON BY A GROUP; TO BE PILED ON
✍️定義:一人または少数の人を大勢で取り囲んで存分に叩くこと。転じて、大勢の人から集中的に非難されること。
=> *A group beating up one person or a few people.
*Figuratively, being attacked and criticised collectively by many people.
❸ 社畜 しゃちく :MODERN-DAY WAGE SLAVE
✍️定義:≪会社に飼い慣らされている家畜の意≫
会社の言いなりになって、辛い仕事でも文句を言わず働いている会社員をいう語。
=> Refers to people who are exploited and worked to the bone at their company but put up with it without complaining.
❹ 脱サラ =サラリーマンから脱する:ESCAPING THE SALARIED LIFE
✍️定義:サラリーマンをやめて、独立して商売や仕事を始めること。
=> Refers to leaving salaried employment and starting out independently to build your own business or career.
❺ 借りパク ( かりパク) : BORROW AND KEEP
借りてパクる
✍️定義:他者から借りたものをそのままパクってしまうこと。
=> Refers to borrowing someone's things and then simply keeping them as your own with no intention of giving them back.
❻ 授かり婚=できちゃった婚: A SHOTGUN WEDDING
✍️定義:妊娠したことをきっかけに結婚する
=> Refers to getting pregnant first, so that marriage becomes unavoidable.
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❶ 出鱈目 : でたらめ
📚 Nonsense, rubbish, baseless.
例文: 彼の話したことはでたらめだ。
👉 What he said really is nonsense.
❷ 愚うの骨頂:ぐうのこっちょう
📚 Unbelievably stupid, the height of stupidity.
例文: そんな露呈なうそでまんまと騙されるなんて愚うの骨頂だ。
👉 Being taken in so easily by such a blatant lie is stupid beyond words.
❸ 値切る : ねぎる
📚 To haggle, to bargain
例文: あの奴は店に入って欲しくないな。安いものであろうと高いものであろうとなんでもうるさく値切ってばかりいるのだ。
👉 I don't want that fellow in the shop at all! Cheap or expensive, all he ever does is haggle.
❹ 破天荒: はてんこう
📚 To do something nobody has ever done before.
例:破天荒な人。
👉 A person who does what nobody has ever done before.
❺ 高くつく: たかくつく
📚 Refers to the price going up compared with what was first estimated or imagined!
例文: 節約しようと家でお寿司を作ったら、材料費などで結局、高くついてしまった。
👉 I meant to make sushi at home to save money, but in the end the ingredients and everything else pushed the cost much higher!
❻ 虫の居所が悪い :むしのいどころがわるい。
📚 Out of sorts, in a bad mood.
例文:今、母は なんか虫の居所が悪いみたいだから、近づかない方がいい。
👉 Mum seems to be in a bad mood about something right now, doesn't she? Better not go near her.
❼ 食い逃げ : くいにげ
📚 To skip out on the bill
例文: あっちでうろうろしている奴を店に入らせないでください。先日、違う店で食い逃げして追いかけられたそうだよ。
👉 Don't let that fellow hanging around over there into the shop. I hear he skipped out on the bill at another place the other day and got thrown out!
❽ 甘受 : かんじゅ
📚 To put up with something, to grin and bear it
例文: 住民が政府の対策に対して不満を抱えているのだが、仕方なく甘受するしかない。
👉 People are unhappy with the government's measures, but there's nothing to be done, so all they can do is put up with it.
❾ 食いしん坊: くいしんぼう
📚 Greedy, gluttonous
💥 A word with a similar meaning: 飽食-ほうしょく
例文: あの子はテーブルに出された物を全部食べたよ。食いしん坊な子供だなあ。
👉 That child ate up all the food put on the table. What a greedy child.
➓ 冗談半分: じょうだんはんぶん
📚 Half joking, half serious
例文: 冗談半分で言ったつもりが彼女を怒らせてしまった。
👉 I only meant it half as a joke, but I've gone and made her angry.