What student of Japanese has not grappled with the amazing diversity and tantalizingly elusive nuances of its idioms? One certainly would not want to confuse, for example,
ki ga mawaru (to be considerate) with
ki o mawasu (to be suspicious). And it would be useful to know whether your boss is
hara ga tatsu (angry) or merely
ki ga tatsu (upset). Indeed, even a single idiom can have a bewildering number of meanings depending on context;
te o ireru, for instance, can mean tidying up (as a room), sounding out someone, or making a raid.
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