Translation guide
How to express 'open wide' in Japanese, covering physical actions like opening a mouth or door wide, and figurative uses.
Please open your mouth wide at the dentist.
I opened my mouth wide to eat the big hamburger.
Implies opening the mouth wide in surprise or astonishment, often involuntarily.
I opened my mouth wide in surprise at the news.
To open one's eyes wide, often due to surprise or to see clearly.
To open a door, window, or similar object fully.
To spread one's arms wide, as for a hug or gesture.
To describe a large gap, difference, or opening in a non-physical sense.
Idiomatic phrase meaning to open eyes wide in surprise, literally 'make eyes round'.
He watched the magic trick with his eyes wide open.
It's hot, so I opened the window wide.
The child came running with arms wide open.