Lost in Literal

🇰🇷 Korean, taken literally

입에 풀칠하다

IP-e pul-chil-ha-da

Literally

To smear glue on one's mouth

What it really means

To barely scrape by

풀=glue이자 묽은 죽. 밥 대신 풀죽으로 입만 축인다는 그림.

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Korean, taken literally

눈치가 없다To have no eye-sense 눈치를 보다To watch someone's eye-sense 발이 넓다Feet are wide 손이 크다Hands are big 간 떨어질 뻔했다The liver was about to fall off 속이 타다The inside is burning