101 Japanese Idioms: 26-50

English	Japanese
A faint, almost inaudible voice	蚊の鳴くような声
Of no consequence, powerless	ごまめの歯軋り
Bedlam, chaotic, frenzied	蜂の巣をつついたよう
Doomed, at the hands of god, at the mercy of fate	まな板の上の鯉
Voice of authority, unchallengeable authority	鶴の一声
Leave on a good note, create a good impression before leaving for good	立つ鳥後を濁さず
Everybody and their mother (brother)	猫も杓子も
A provincial, one who has never seen the world	井の中の蛙(大海を知らず）
To rest on one's laurels, to coast, to be complacent	あぐらをかく
Brothers-in-crime, co-conspirators	同じ穴の狢
To exploit someone's weakness in negotiation, to charge what the traffic will bear	足もとを見る
Near one's death, almost dead	虫の息
To cut loose, to get rid of inhibition, letting one's hair down	羽根を伸ばす
To start over (after discarding a bad situation), to go straight	足を洗う
Swamped, shorthanded, up to one's eyeballs in work	猫の手も借りたい
Mr/Miss/Ms/Mrs Popularity, a person in great demand, being pulled in all directions	引っ張り蛸
There's no accounting for taste, some prefer nettles	たで食う虫も好き好き
Extremely small in size	猫の額
It never rains but it pours, bad things come in threes	泣き面に蜂
As shy and quiet as a kitten	借りてきた猫のよう
An unknown person with no references, a person of unknown background	馬の骨
To be ashamed, not knowing how to face someone	合わせる顔がない
Love is blind	あばたもえくぼ
Very small amount, a tad	雀の涙
Pearls before swine	猫に小判

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