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-기(가) 귀찮다Used when you can't be bothered to do something because it feels like too much trouble. At 눈에 띄다To stand out and be noticed, to be eye-catching. Used for something or someone conspicuous 미움을 받다To be disliked or resented by others. Used when someone's words or actions make people tur 간 떨어지다To be startled or frightened out of one's wits. In Korean the liver is seen as the seat of 소름 끼치다To get goosebumps from fear, horror, or sometimes deep awe/disgust. Used for things that a 녹초가 되다To be completely worn out, with no energy left. Used after hard physical labor, a long day 갈팡질팡하다To dither, unable to decide which way to go or what to do. Used when someone is confused a 귓등으로 듣다To not really listen — to let what someone says go in one ear and out the other, paying no 긴가민가하다To be unsure, half in doubt about whether something is true or right. Used when your memor 시비를 걸다To pick a fight or deliberately start a quarrel, often by finding fault for no good reason 눈치를 보다To watch someone's mood or read the room, gauging how others feel before acting. Used when 바람을 피우다To have an affair, to cheat on one's partner. The standard idiom for romantic infidelity i 소확행Small but certain happiness — modest everyday joys you can reliably enjoy. A coinage popul 등지다To turn one's back on someone or something — to fall out with a person, or to leave/forsak 손을 뻗다To reach out — literally for an object, or figuratively to extend one's influence/business 숨통이 트이다To get breathing room; to feel relief after a stifling situation eases — financially, emot 안달이 나다To be antsy and impatient; to fret restlessly because you badly want something or can't wa 억지를 부리다To be stubbornly unreasonable; to insist on something absurd against all logic and refuse 얼굴을 붉히다To flush in anger or embarrassment — most often used of two people getting heated and havi 엄두가 안 나다To not even be able to bring oneself to attempt something — it feels too daunting or overw 오리발을 내밀다To play innocent and brazenly deny wrongdoing — pretending to know nothing even when caugh 이만저만Ordinary; just so-so. Almost always used with a negative to mean 'no ordinary —' / 'extrao 입이 무겁다To be tight-lipped and discreet — someone who keeps secrets well and doesn't talk needless 입이 가볍다To be loose-lipped — someone who can't keep a secret and blurts things out carelessly. The 짜고 치다To be rigged or fixed; to collude in advance so the outcome is predetermined. Often '짜고 치는 찬밥 신세Being treated as unimportant and left out, like leftover cold rice nobody wants. Used when 티를 내다To let it show; to make a feeling or fact obvious through expression or behavior. Often ab 한물가다To be past one's prime or out of fashion; no longer fresh or popular. Originally said of f 후련하다To feel relieved and refreshed after a burden, worry, or pent-up feeling is released. The 흐지부지Describes something fizzling out or ending inconclusively, without a clear resolution. Oft 힘에 부치다To be beyond one's strength or capacity; too much to handle. Used when a task or burden ex 퇴짜를 맞다To be rejected or turned down — a proposal, application, or offer refused. From the old pr 손에 땀을 쥐다To be on the edge of one's seat; tense and gripped with suspense. Used for nail-biting gam 와닿다To resonate or strike a chord; to be felt deeply and personally. Used when words, art, or 배가 아프다To be jealous or envious of someone else's good fortune — to feel a pang because another p 기진맥진하다To be utterly drained, exhausted to the point of barely functioning. A more formal/literar 갑론을박A heated back-and-forth where people argue and refute each other, each insisting on their 깽판을 치다To wreck things, ruin an event or plan, often by causing a disruptive scene. Slangy and in 노심초사하다To worry oneself sick, fretting and anxious over something. Used when someone is deeply tr 덤터기를 쓰다To get unfairly saddled with blame, fault, or a burden that isn't yours. Used when someone 돌려까다To mock or criticize someone indirectly, taking a backhanded dig rather than saying it str 말아먹다To squander or blow everything — money, a business, an opportunity — until it's ruined. Sl 본때를 보이다To teach someone a lesson or show them what you're made of, so they won't dare mess with y 비일비재하다To be commonplace, happening over and over — not a rare one-off but a frequent occurrence. 불혹Age 40. From Confucius's 'at forty I had no doubts' — an age when one is no longer swayed 속수무책Utterly helpless; there is nothing one can do. Used when a situation has gotten beyond you 얼토당토않다To be utterly absurd or preposterous; completely off the mark and not worth taking serious 이실직고To confess the truth honestly and without concealment. Often used when someone finally own 이판사판A do-or-die, all-or-nothing situation; throwing caution to the wind because there's nothin 좌지우지하다To control something or someone completely and do as one pleases with it — to manipulate o 호락호락하다To be a pushover — easy to handle or manipulate. Almost always used in the negative (호락호락하 인지상정It's only human nature; a feeling or reaction anyone would naturally have. Used to excuse 입이 마르다To talk something up repeatedly; to praise endlessly until one's mouth runs dry. Usually a 같잖은 소리를 하다To talk nonsense; to say something absurd, presumptuous, or not worth taking seriously. Ca 간에 기별도 안 가다Said when an amount of food is nowhere near enough to satisfy hunger — so little the body 시험에 들다To be tempted or put to the test — drawn toward something one shouldn't do, or having one' 눈코 뜰 새 없다To be swamped with no time to breathe; so busy one can't spare a single moment. Describes

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