Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [ろくに]

A fish out of water.

She answered with hardly a smile.

She had only eaten a little before she left the table.

She doesn't even speak her own language well, let alone French.

He is, so to speak, a fish out of water.

Many women could barely spell their names.

The ship approached the shore by degrees.

I can't even speak English very well, much less Spanish.

I could not sleep much last night.

You are, so to speak, a fish out of water.

The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

Whales are said to have lived on land long ago.

"A fish out of water" is a metaphor for being unable to use your talents due to a change of environment.

Once I started college, I barely had time to sleep.

This young man knows little about his country.