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• 앉은 자리에 풀도 안 나겠다
🌏 EVEN GRASS WILL NOT GROW ON THE PLACE ONE HAS BEEN SEATED: For one's character to be very unfriendly and cold-hearted.

• 말로는 못할 말이 없다
🌏 THERE'S NOTHING TO EXPRESS IN WORDS: It is easy to say something that will not be put into action or without obligation to fulfill.

• 한 귀로 듣고 한 귀로 흘린다
🌏 LET SOMETHING COME INTO ONE EAR AND GO OUT THOUGH THE OTHER; IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER: To fail to pay proper attention to what someone says.

• 부모 말을 잘 들으면 자다가도 떡이 생긴다.
🌏 LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS AND YOU WILL GET TTEOK, RICE CAKE, EVEN WHILE SLEEPING: Obedience to one's own parents will bring one good luck.

• 똥 누고 밑 아니 씻은 것 같다
🌏 FEEL LIKE NOT HAVING WIPED OFF ONE'S BEHIND AFTER DEFECATING: To feel uneasy since something is finished in a rough and incomplete manner.

• 불알 두 쪽밖에는 없다
🌏 HAVE ONLY TWO TESTICLES: To have nothing.

• 불알을 긁어 주다
🌏 SCRATCH SOMEONE'S TESTICLES: To flatter someone to win his/her favor.

• 도둑을 맞으려면 개도 안 짖는다
🌏 NOT EVEN A DOG WILL BARK IF IT IS MEANT TO BE STOLEN: Everything will go wrong if one is unfavored.

• 두었다가 국 끓여 먹겠다
🌏 LEAVE SOMETHING AND MAKE SOUP OUT OF IT LATER: (teasing) To save and hold something that should be used.

• 똥 묻은 개가 겨 묻은 개 나무란다
🌏 A DOG WITH DUNG REBUKES A DOG WITH HUSKS OF GRAIN: For one with greater faults or defects to speak ill of someone with smaller faults.

• 죽을 똥을 싸다
🌏 DEFECATE TO DEATH: To spend too much energy in doing something.

• 그저 그렇다
🌏 BE JUST ORDINARY; BE SO-SO: To be not that special.

• 사서 고생(을) 하다
🌏 PAY THE PRICE TO GO THROUGH HARDSHIPS: To invite trouble that can be avoided and go through hardships.

• 죽자 사자[살자] 하다
🌏 DO 'LET'S DIE' AND 'LET'S SURVIVE': To make all-out efforts at the risk of one's life.

• 사람 죽이다
🌏 KILL A HUMAN: For something to give someone a hard time.

• 사람 살려
🌏 PLEASE, SAVE A MAN!: An expression used to ask for help in a life-threatening emergency.

• 사람 같지 않다
🌏 BE NOT LIKE A HUMAN: To not have a manner or character that one is expected to have as a person.

• 판을 거듭하다
🌏 REPEAT EDITIONS: To reprint the same edition of an already published book.

• 판에 박히다
🌏 BE PUT IN A PRINTING BLOCK: For one's words and behavior to be the same as they have been and have nothing new.

• 판에 박은 말
🌏 A REMARK PUT IN A PRINTING BLOCK: The same statement without new information.

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