Lost in Literal

🇯🇵 Japanese, taken literally

手を焼く

te o yah-koo · てをやく

Literally

to burn one's hands

What it really means

to have a hard time handling; to be at a loss with

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Japanese, taken literally

猫の手も借りたいI want to borrow even a cat's paw猫に小判Gold coins to a cat猫をかぶるTo put on a cat猫舌Cat's tongue猫背Cat's back猫の額Cat's forehead