jpdb beta

Login or Sign up
針はりの穴あなから天てんのぞく
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan, く)
Idiomatic
1. to be like a frog in a well; to make (faulty) assumptions based on one's limited understanding of something; (lit.) to look at the skies through the eye of a needle
Alt. forms
針はりの穴あなから天てんのぞく
針はりの穴あなから天てん覗のぞく
Kanji used
針
needle
穴
hole
天
heaven
Conjugations...Used in: 1
Composed of
eye of a needle
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.); to look down into (a ravine, etc.); to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.); to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at; to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.); to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.)