List of Japanese Idioms
- Mujun - Contradiction
- 矛盾
- Literally "spear shield". From the story of the "unbreakable shield" and the "spear which can pierce anything" and saying how both of these can't really exist simultaneously.
- Yubi wo kuwaeru - to look on enviously while doing nothing
- 指をくわえる
- Literally "to count one's fingers"