語感 Dictionary

疑心暗鬼

ぎしんあんき

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

Meanings

  1. Expression

    suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadowsAbbreviationFour-character idiom

Example sentences

  • 彼かれは、だまされてばかりいて、疑心暗鬼ぎしんあんきになっている。

    He has a lot of fear and doubt because people are always fooling him.

  • ドイツ人じんにカンマについて尋たずねられると、いつも疑心暗鬼ぎしんあんきになります。

    I'm always suspicious when a German asks for a comma.