まな板

Etymology
Compound of.

The kanji spelling comes from.

Noun

 * 1) a chopping board, a cutting board
 * 2)  a girl with a flat chest (compare the 🇨🇬 expression )

Derived terms

 * : a board shaped like a cutting board, attached to the top of a sluice gate and used to raise and lower the gate

Idioms

 * : “like pounding nails into a cutting board” → to care about things that don't matter, from the sense that a cutting board is a single piece of wood and does not need nailing
 * : “to put on the cutting board” → to make something or someone the topic of conversation, often implying criticism
 * : “[like] a carp on a cutting board” → done for, one's goose is cooked
 * : “[like] a fish on a cutting board” → done for, one's goose is cooked
 * : “a bird picking up food from a cutting board” → a metaphor for doing something while being oblivious of the danger
 * : “[using] a cutting board as a desk” → to use something for an inappropriate purpose