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REALLY good site for learning idomatic phrases - Tobberoth - 2008-10-14 For those of us who have studied Japanese to a pretty advanced level, a big problem is idiomatic phrases. Even though we understand every word in a sentence, we might not understand the sentence at all because words are being used in an "odd" way. Most of the time, this is because the sentence contains an idiomatic set-phrase. Watching My Boss My Hero in Japanese, i encountered the sentence: 向こうは腐るほど金を持っている香港一の成金マフィアだ。 While I could see every word in the sentence and understood all the grammar, 腐るほど金 made little sense to me. "A rotting amount of money". I could GUESS the idiomatic meaning, but I wanted to be sure. Using google I found the point of this whole post: http://www.geocities.jp/tomomi965/index2.html A japanese dictionary of idiomatic phrases! If you go into く for example, you can find 腐るほど and there's a LOT more. Seems like a great source, both for help when translating and as a mining spot for interesting definitions. EDIT: It should be noted that sanseido contains this idiomatic phrase under 腐る, but that doesn't make the site any less useful REALLY good site for learning idomatic phrases - nac_est - 2008-10-15 Cool site! Actually I had it in my bookmarks already but had totally forgotten about it. Thanks for bringing it up! REALLY good site for learning idomatic phrases - wccrawford - 2008-10-15 While I'm nowhere near ready for it, I'm glad to have that link for when I am. REALLY good site for learning idomatic phrases - saizen - 2008-10-19 o lord have mercy...ありがとうございます！