Thoughts and feelings

Eat one’s fill Eat to one’s heart’s content until one no longer wants more understand each other intuitively To understand each other implicitly because one’s thinking, interests, or the like coincide or are close. Keep in mind Keep something engraved in one’s mind without forgetting Feel settled and content Have work or life suit one's heart, bringing settled contentment without restlessness or dissatisfaction. have no desire for something To have no wish to do or possess something. Have a desire for something Have a desire to do or possess something Be fully satisfying Find something fully satisfying. Devote one's heart Settle one's heart on something or devote oneself to it. soothe one’s feelings To calm pent-up or intense emotion. Be consumed with anguish Feel extreme distress give one’s heart To reveal one’s feelings willingly without hiding them. Relax one's mind Ease a previously tense mind. 2 meanings have a change of heart For one’s previous feelings to change completely. Feel resentment subside Have pent-up or intense feelings subside Understand each other Understand one another well through shared thoughts. 2 meanings have one’s heart soften For pent-up or estranged feelings to disappear. Be intensely spiteful Have an extremely obstinate, spiteful disposition be spitefully stubborn To be very spiteful and obstinate. Be intensely spiteful Have an extremely stubborn, spiteful disposition Be easygoing and unashamed Not be easily angered or embarrassed. feel sickened with resentment To find something offensive and disgusting. Take a bold stand Adopt a bold, resolute attitude stand one’s ground To display one’s boldness and persist without yielding. Be of the same mind Agree in purpose and feeling in planning something. 2 meanings whisper love or become lovers For people of opposite sexes to exchange words of love. A love nest A new household made by people who love each other Anger subsides Have unpleasant feelings caused by offense to one's temperament subside. Be narrow-minded and impatient Have little generosity and a quick temper Feel satisfied Consider something sufficient and satisfying Lose one’s temper Vulgarly, become angry calculate mentally To reckon figures in one’s mind. weigh on one’s conscience To feel displeased because something weighs on one’s mind. Words one does not mean Words differing from one’s true feelings Feel anger surge Have indignant feelings surge up. Provoke someone's anger Gently needle someone until they become furious. agonize To torment oneself with worry. Sound someone out Make guesses to learn another’s feelings make someone agonize To make another person extremely anxious and distressed. Suppress one's convictions or feelings Suppress one's principles or emotions. Draw out someone’s true feelings Deliberately probe another’s feelings and make their inner thoughts emerge Cause emotional distress Cause mental suffering through something emotionally painful. be deeply distressed To suffer greatly from things not going as intended or from something unfortunate. 2 meanings Worry or show care Worry or feel concerned Open one’s heart Reveal what is in one’s heart without hiding it 2 meanings Act sensibly; look after one's interests Behave with sound judgment. worry intensely To feel intensely anxious with worry. Seethe inside Have intense feelings rise inwardly through anger or injustice. cool down emotionally For angry or sulky feelings to ease. 2 meanings Feel nauseated or disgusted Feel one’s stomach upset as though about to retch Tremble inwardly with fear Feel extreme fear inwardly 2 meanings Be stiff and narrow-minded Have a rigid, obstinate disposition. Show one's ulterior motives Have one's sly intentions become visible. remain inwardly defiant To appear subdued outwardly but harbor rebellion inwardly. Feel relieved and refreshed Feel refreshed because something good happens or something bad disappears have a sinister heart To have an impure, sly, or sinister mind. Have anger well up Have indignation rise through displeasure. Burn with worry Be consumed inwardly with worry. be broad-minded To have a generous mind and bold, open speech and conduct. 2 meanings Have anger or stomach discomfort subside Have angry or sulky feelings ease become spiteful To have one’s wish to treat someone well turn sour and behave spitefully. Be ill-natured Have a spiteful and bad heart Speak one's mind openly State all the thoughts one has in mind. Start acting spitefully Begin behaving spitefully. Remain untroubled Have a calm disposition or nerve without signs of distress or anxiety be blinded by greed To be unable to judge or distinguish matters properly because of greed. Be extremely greedy Be very greedy. fall out with someone For a relationship to worsen. Be swayed by sentiment Lean excessively toward personal sympathy show kindness through gifts To show warm affection by giving money or goods. Be excessively softhearted Be excessively compassionate or generous. Have an illicit affair Of a man and woman who are not spouses, enter an illicit relationship. Remember deeply An emphatic expression for firmly remembering something in one's heart so as not to forget. Of one heart and mind For several people’s hearts and intentions to be as one

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gain confidence To gain momentum without feeling discouraged. Be speechless with astonishment Be so dumbfounded that one cannot speak Use all one's strength Exert all the strength one has. feel free to assert oneself To escape oppression or difficult circumstances and feel mentally free. 2 meanings collapse or swoon To sink into exhaustion for lack of strength. Be in a daze Lose one’s senses and become blank or dazed 2 meanings Be stunned; be captivated Lose one's composure and become dazed, or lose consciousness. be stunned or lose consciousness To have no thoughts or lose consciousness. 2 meanings Be absent-minded or absorbed Be dazed and not in one’s right senses become worked up For excitement or fervor to rise. Pour out words uninhibitedly Figuratively, freely pour out everything one wishes to say. Have no idea why Not know the inside story, reason, or the like Let tension go Become blank or listless as tension relaxes. 2 meanings take a pulse or gauge someone To examine the speed of a pulse. Have an effect Show an effect Sound out someone’s intentions Find out another person’s hidden intentions Lose strength or motivation Become weak or lose motivation. lose strength or tension For energy or tension to dissipate. Strain every nerve Vulgarly, try with all one’s might have strong nerve To have the nerve to insist on one’s own way without shame or fear. Be outgoing Be lively without showing shyness or embarrassment. Lose one's composure Lose one's clear senses through great shock or noise. Be stunned Become bewildered through surprise. be dazed To lose one’s composure and become bewildered. Lose consciousness Lose consciousness leave someone bewildered To distract someone’s mind and leave them dazed. 3 meanings Regain consciousness or come to one’s senses Regain lost consciousness 3 meanings Regain judgment; regain motivation; regain consciousness Become able to judge things. 2 meanings come to one’s senses To regain lost consciousness. 3 meanings Be out of one’s senses or absorbed Think or act abnormally without sound mental judgment Have an excellent memory Have outstanding memory. Feel cowed Shrink back, unable to show one’s spirit, through shame or fear Be completely drained Lose so much strength that one cannot move one’s body Persist doggedly Exert strength or behave persistently. 2 meanings Give a severe dressing-down; leave someone dazed Make someone suffer a severe scolding or ordeal. be dazed To become bewildered and unable to recognize things properly as one’s mind leaves its normal state. Be shocked out of one’s senses Be so startled that one nearly loses consciousness have a terrible ordeal To suffer great difficulty through a harsh trial or through enduring an unpleasant feeling.

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Earn someone’s resentment Make someone feel displeased capture the right emotion When acting or singing, to fully assimilate and express emotions suited to a character or a song’s mood. Hurt someone’s feelings Make someone feel unpleasant Become resentful Develop unpleasant feelings. Stop worrying Refrain from worrying or stop worrying. have a mountain of worries To have worries as vast as Mount Tai because there are too many or too complicated matters to resolve. Be paralyzed by fear Be so frightened that one cannot summon strength. Calm one’s anger Relieve and subdue an angry feeling Be upright in character Have an honest, upright disposition. cool down For an angry heart to soften as anger subsides. Make someone furious Make anger well up Be furious Be extremely angry Become angry Feel anger welling up. be irritated To feel displeased and angry. Show a shadow of worry Feel uneasy or have a troubled expression because of worries. Treat someone Pay for another person's treat. Lose one's liveliness Have one's complexion darken or lose vitality. Pester someone unbearably Behave so as to make someone fed up. Incur someone’s anger Anger someone and suffer the effects oneself incur someone’s wrath To anger another person and suffer the consequences. 2 meanings Leave room for later; hold a grudge Avoid an immediate conclusion and leave leeway, considering what may come later. Soothe hurt feelings Ease or eliminate pent-up feelings. Have anger surge furiously Have anger well up extremely strongly Boil with rage Feel an extremely strong surge of anger Be nauseatingly offensive Be disagreeable and repellent 2 meanings Feel nauseated or offended Feel so nauseated that one seems about to vomit. 2 meanings turn someone’s stomach or offend them To upset someone’s stomach so much that they feel about to vomit. Stomach something distasteful Deliberately do something repellent and disliked, as though able to stomach it easily Swallow one's displeasure Suppress and endure something offensive. Be furious Feel intense anger surge up. Pester persistently Repeatedly behave in an extremely bothersome way pester someone relentlessly To annoy someone repeatedly and severely, causing distress. Pester to distress Repeatedly annoy someone severely, making them distressed. Be badly shocked Vulgarly, be severely shocked Pay careful attention Pay meticulous attention even to small matters Be oversensitive Be so meticulous and timid that even trivial things stimulate one. be thick-skinned To be so broad-minded that ordinary matters do not affect one. Pour out words without restraint Figuratively, say everything one wants to say without restraint Stew in anger Fail to vent anger and brood alone beat the stubbornness out of someone To use corporal punishment to remove a stubborn disposition. Show bitter spite Show an extremely spiteful, malicious expression agonize with anxiety To be distressed by intense anguish and anxiety. Feel anxious concern Feel distressed concern. Make someone fret Make another feel anxious and distressed get on someone’s nerves To offend someone and make them displeased or quietly angry. 2 meanings Grow pungent or feel nettled For chili peppers, tobacco, or the like to grow well and develop more pungent constituents Be forced into something Figuratively, a case of forcing something to happen or having something barely accomplished under compulsion. Be heated with excitement or anger Become extremely excited or angry Be enraged Become extremely excited or furious. 3 meanings Get worked up; pursue enthusiastically; raise momentum Become excited and angry. 2 meanings get fired up For momentum or fervor to rise. blow hot and cold An expression for something failing to stay steady at a certain level, meaning that enthusiasm rises and then cools. Speak through tears Figuratively, speak while crying. choke back tears To force oneself to hold back tears. become a laughingstock To be ridiculed and mocked by others. Work as a hostess or prostitute For a woman to live by working in the pleasure trade have anguish clot in one’s heart For bitter emotional pain to arise or exist within one’s heart. Do as one pleases Act however one likes. 2 meanings covet something or feel awkward To want to possess something. Feel a bitter disappointment Feel upset or distressed because things do not go as wished Be quick-tempered Have a tendency to display a quick, sharp temper leave an enduring bitterness To make someone harbor a grievance that can never be resolved. Have anger flare up For long-suppressed anger to become uncontrollable and cause heated words or actions Become enraged Feel indignation well up from anger. be furious To become extremely angry. Stew in anger Fail to vent anger freely and brood alone 2 meanings be swept up in excitement To become elated with excitement.

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3 meanings Take aim; assess; check a scale Aim at a target. 3 meanings take aim or assess To aim at a target. Be able to gauge Be able to make or arrive at a guess or assessment fade from memory For something once remembered to be forgotten. have a good memory for routes To remember routes well enough to find a place after only one or two visits. Have a poor sense of direction Remember routes so poorly that one cannot readily retrace a road already traveled act strangely For one’s attitude or behavior to be odd. Feel conscious of others’ reactions Come to watch another’s feelings and attitude Be quick to read others Recognize others' feelings unusually quickly. watch someone’s reactions To examine another person’s feelings and attitude. Watch someone’s reactions Look for another person’s unspoken reactions Read every social cue Guess and understand all sorts of unspoken cues Have no sense of others' feelings Fail completely to recognize another person's thoughts or attitude. use as a rough measure To use something as a standard for estimation. Make a rough guess Estimate by approximate guesswork Make a rough estimate Calculate by rough estimation. Carry on another's wishes Inherit another person's intentions and follow them. set one’s ambition To hold a future goal in one’s heart and resolve to pursue it. 2 meanings Be of one mind Share the same thoughts Picture in one’s mind Think of something in one’s mind Be empty-headed Have no discernment or judgment. gain a subtle understanding through experience To grasp a subtle principle through experience. Gain worldly insight Come to understand subtle principles through experience be easygoing To have a relaxed disposition without rushing or being impatient. beat a hasty retreat To run away in great haste. Beat a hasty retreat Flee urgently. View with prejudice Look unfavorably because of subjective opinions or prejudice. View through prejudice Have negative feelings or subjective preconceptions Crave something intensely Have an extremely earnest desire to do something think readily To think well or have thoughts arise readily as needed. Thought shapes destiny Express that destiny is determined by what one constantly wishes and thinks about. become practiced To become practiced or accustomed to a task or the like. Devise petty tricks Use one's mind to come up with shallow tricks.

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Fall deeply asleep Fall deeply asleep. not even dream of it To be unable even to conceive of something. Never even dream of it Not think of something at all Dream big, absurdly so Sarcastically express that one's hope is too great to be realizable. Haunt one's dreams Appear in dreams because one cannot forget. never imagine even in a dream To be utterly unable to imagine something. Never have considered it Never have thought of something even once Give up unrealistic hopes Lower or abandon one's hopes. 2 meanings wonder whether it is a dream An expression for being at a loss when faced with a completely unexpected event. 2 meanings Idle away or lie unused Remain carefree without doing what one should 2 meanings Dream futilely of former status Of someone whose circumstances have changed, entertain a futile, foolish desire to regain former circumstances or status. be a light sleeper To be sensitive enough to wake at an ordinary sound. Sleep through noises Have so little sensitivity to sound while asleep that one rarely wakes wake someone from complacency To awaken someone and make them come to their senses. Get a brief sleep Close one's eyes and sleep briefly.

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Be clearly headed for hardship Be plainly certain to experience hardship ahead have things go wrong For something not to go as intended. Drop dead Die suddenly. rush about frantically To rush about wildly in haste, not knowing what to do. Benefit from someone Receive benefit or help from another Be helpful Be beneficial or helpful. Suffer great disgrace Suffer great humiliation, or continue to be humiliated. show signs of ruin For signs of approaching ruin to arise or appear. Commit a ritually impure act Commit an impure act while in a bodily condition requiring taboos or avoidance Expel ritual impurity During a purification rite, of a shaman, dispel impure things. suffer ritual contamination To suffer harm through something ritually impure. A blessing amid misfortune Something fortunate enough within an unfortunate situation. Have a harsh destiny Have many vicissitudes in life because of inborn bad fortune. upset the applecart To disrupt something proceeding well so that it cannot be accomplished. Have plans go awry For a matter that was going well to become derailed Attack someone venomously Criticize another person in venomous words. suffer an unlucky mishap To suffer harm through an unfortunate coincidence, even in a trivial matter. 2 meanings be afflicted by a malign influence For an ominous influence that harms people or objects to attach itself. Discord disappears Have the influence that destroys affection fall away 2 meanings An evil influence departs An ominous force harmful to people, objects, or the like falls away. become enraged To become fiercely enraged. Show venomous hostility Show a venomous, hostile disposition 2 meanings An evil influence attaches itself An ominous force harmful to people, objects, or the like attaches itself. 2 meanings Be beset by a malign influence Have an ominous force that harms people or objects attach itself 2 meanings Be under an evil influence An ominous force harmful to people, objects, or the like attaches itself. 2 meanings be ill-fated For relatives to lack affection for one another. 2 meanings Be beset by a malign influence Have an ominous force that harms people or objects attach itself avert future bad luck through a lesser ordeal To avoid impending bad luck by undergoing some other experience beforehand. Show signs of coming good fortune Show signs of becoming happy or fortunate show signs of future kingship For signs to appear that a king will be born or someone will become king. Read one’s annual fortunes Interpret a birth-based fortune chart giving one’s fortune year by year throughout life 2 meanings Calculate the sexagenary cycle or fortune Use a person’s age to calculate their birth year in the sexagenary cycle 2 meanings Become weakened or impoverished Become physically weak from illness Feel satisfied at last Feel content because things have gone according to one’s temperament Live an easy life Have no worries or concerns and live comfortably 3 meanings Remarry; improve one's fortune or status Of a woman, remarry. be beyond one’s station To be unsuitable because it exceeds one’s station.

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Show consideration for someone's standing Take someone's dignity or social standing into account. lose face To suffer damage to one’s dignity or reputation. Be shortlisted for office Be nominated as a candidate and included among the three names submitted for appointment. be too ashamed to face someone To feel too ashamed to have the courage to face someone. Feel deeply embarrassed Feel extremely embarrassed Be utterly shameless Have no sense of dignity or shame whatsoever Observe decency Recognize propriety and act without disgrace 3 meanings Lend or stake one’s name Occupy a position as a member Be unknown Have one's name not widely known in the world. be well known To have one’s name widely known in the world. be trapped by concern for appearances To suffer embarrassment at the hands of an insignificant person while trying to preserve one’s dignity. Feel one's dignity compromised Feel ashamed and indignant because one's dignity is not upheld.

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Leave one's drink untouched Express leaving the liquor in one's glass undrunk for a long time. Deliver a spirit's message Of a shaman, convey an oracle from a spirit. carry bitterness into the next world For resentment or the like to reach even the afterlife. Be utterly undetectable Be completely concealed and undetectable Be utterly inexplicable Be so unexpected that its inner workings cannot be understood. become a master To become astonishingly skilled at something. be possessed For a person to be bewitched by a ghost and lose their senses. An unstable household fortune An unstable livelihood whose possessions can suddenly vanish. Be impossible to make sense of Be unable to discern a pattern because someone’s actions are unclear be utterly bewildered To be unable to understand what is going on because the circumstances are unknown. Show a bad omen Express that an unfavorable sign appears. coax someone into leaving An expression for doing nothing but soothe and coax someone away, fearing they might not leave. Want to drag others down too A malicious disposition of trying to drag others into one’s predicament when oneself is in trouble drown To fall into water and die. Have a troublesome ancestral spirit In folk belief, have an ancestor who became a spirit after dying while chanting Buddhist prayers, making the descendants difficult to raise 2 meanings Bring disaster; be absurdly cheap Have disaster arise because of an object. Install the household guardian Perform a rite to install Seongju as the household's guardian spirit. have a spirit descend onto a ritual branch For a spirit to descend onto a ritual branch while a shaman or the like recites an invocation. perform a rite for the dead For a shaman to perform a rite praying for the repose of a dead person. Be possessed by a deity For a deity to attach to a shaman, causing spiritual behavior shake violently A figurative expression describing trembling violently. Treat with reverent care Figuratively, the manner of handling or keeping something carefully and devotedly because one values it greatly bear a cross To take on grave guilt, hardship, or the like. send away an unwelcome guest Figuratively, to drive away an unwelcome guest. mutter unintelligibly A figurative expression for muttering sounds that cannot be understood. pass away A euphemistic expression for to die. feel as dreadful as death An expression for feeling unwilling because something inspires fear or horror. Go to the next world A euphemistic expression for “to die” Send someone to their death A euphemistic expression for killing. Become ill through spirit possession Be possessed by a spirit believed to cause severe illness and become gravely ill Suffer harm from a spirit Suffer misfortune caused by a judang spirit. Go to heaven Another expression for “to die” Recite the Thousand-Hand Sutra Read the Thousand-Hand Sutra to pray for a long life without illness. 2 meanings Die; brave death Of a person, die or come close to death. God help us A deeply lamenting expression when one experiences or witnesses something dreadful. Pass away Figuratively, of a person, die. Die Vulgarly, for a person to die Kill someone Slang: kill a person. pass into the realm of the dead A figurative expression for a person dying.

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Make one's way in the world Go into the world and fulfill one's role well or attain a substantial position. 2 meanings turn one’s back on the world To enter a place such as deep mountains and live cut off from society. depart this life A euphemistic expression for to die. 2 meanings Renounce the world or die Enter somewhere such as deep mountains and live cut off from society Depart this life A euphemistic expression for “to die” The social order changes Of society's institutions, structure, organizations, relationships, or the like, change fundamentally. depart this life A euphemistic expression for to die. Depart this life A euphemistic expression for “to die” life is all too short A human lifetime is extremely short. Make the earth shake Of a sound, be extremely loud. Feel as though one has won the world Figuratively, feel extremely happy and satisfied 2 meanings entrust one’s life in marriage For a woman to marry. enter one’s twilight For a person’s life, a nation’s destiny, or the like to decline toward its end after passing its prime.

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