スパニッシュフライ | [supanisshufurai] (n) (1) Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria); (2) Spanish fly (crushed dried Spanish flies sometimes used as an aphrodisiac); cantharides [Add to Longdo] |
トビケラ目;飛螻蛄目 | [トビケラもく(トビケラ目);とびけらもく(飛螻蛄目), tobikera moku ( tobikera me ); tobikeramoku ( hi okera me )] (n) (See 飛螻蛄) Trichoptera (the order of insects comprising the caddisflies) [Add to Longdo] |
フライズ | [furaizu] (n) flies [Add to Longdo] |
烏兎匆々;烏兎匆匆 | [うとそうそう, utosousou] (exp) days and nights passing by quickly; months and years flying by; Time flies [Add to Longdo] |
渇しても盗泉の水を飲まず | [かっしてもとうせんのみずをのまず, kasshitemotousennomizuwonomazu] (exp) Even if thirsty not to drink from "Robber's Spring"; A proverb meaning not to lower oneself to unjust acts no matter how desperate; (English equivalent) The eagle does not hunt flies [Add to Longdo] |
光陰矢のごとし;光陰矢の如し | [こういんやのごとし, kouinyanogotoshi] (exp) time flies like an arrow; time and tide wait for no man; life is short [Add to Longdo] |
歳月流るる如し | [さいげつながるるごとし, saigetsunagarurugotoshi] (exp) (id) Time flies [Add to Longdo] |
真一文字 | [まいちもんじ, maichimonji] (n, adj-no) straight; as the crow flies [Add to Longdo] |
川虫 | [かわむし, kawamushi] (n) aquatic insect larva (esp. of caddisflies, mayflies, etc.) [Add to Longdo] |
竹とんぼ;竹蜻蛉 | [たけとんぼ, taketonbo] (n) small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands [Add to Longdo] |