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踏む ふむ N4

  1. to step on; to trample on; to tread on
  2. to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
  3. to experience; to undergo
  4. to complete; to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities)
  5. to appraise; to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value
  6. to rhyme
  7. to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

二の足を踏む にのあしをふむ

  1. to flinch; to get cold feet; to hesitate; to think twice

地団駄を踏む じだんだをふむ

  1. to stamp one's feet (in frustration, impatience, etc.)

虎の尾を踏む とらのおをふむ

  1. to do something very dangerous; to play with fire; to step on a tiger's tail; to take a great risk

韻を踏む いんをふむ

  1. to rhyme (with)

たたらを踏む たたらをふむ

  1. to pass one's destination and stumble a step or two forward; to stumble a step or two forward (when trying to stop); to totter

お百度を踏む おひゃくどをふむ

  1. to visit repeatedly (to make a request)
  2. to walk back and forth in front of a shrine, praying a hundred times

ドジを踏む ドジをふむ

  1. to bungle; to make a blunder; to make a foolish mistake; to mess up

轍を踏む てつをふむ

  1. to follow the ruts (of a previous cart); to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to repeat someone's mistake

前車の轍を踏む ぜんしゃのてつをふむ

  1. to follow the ruts of a previous cart; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to repeat someone's mistake
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