Word details
고래
- Pronunciation
- 고래
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- intermediate
- Homonyms
- 2
whale
A huge, fish-like animal living in the sea.
Idioms
고래(를) 잡다
catch a whale
For a man to have surgery to remove the skin covering the tip of his penis.
고래 등 같다
like the back of a whale
For tile-roofed house to be very huge and high.
Proverbs
고래 싸움에 새우 등 터진다
The back of a shrimp bursts amid a fight between whales; suffer a side blow in a fight
For an irrelevant and weak bystander to be hurt amid a fight between the strong.