四十八手

しじゅうはって よんじゅうはちて

every trick in the book

八つ手

やつで

Japanese fatsia, Fatsia japonica, eight-fingered-leaf shrub

手八丁

てはっちょう

eloquence, cleverness in speaking

手八丁口八丁

てはっちょうくちはっちょう

eloquent and skilled (worker)

口八丁手八丁

both eloquent and skilled

八つ手網

やつであみ やつでもう

eight-armed scoop net

口も八丁手も八丁

くちもはっちょうてもはっちょう

both eloquent and skilled

八八

two eights

八八花

はちはちばな

standard hanafuda pattern (orig. used to play hachi-hachi)

八十の手習い

はちじゅうのてならい

you're never too old to learn

八

はち や

eight; eighth

八十八夜

はちじゅうはちや

eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring

八百八町

はっぴゃくやちょう

the whole enormous extent of Edo, from one side of Edo to the other

八百八寺

はっぴゃくやでら

the large number of temples in Kyoto

八百八橋

はっぴゃくやばし

the large number of bridges over canals and rivers in Naniwa (present-day Osaka)

八重八重

やえやえ

multilayered

八方手を尽くす

はっぽうてをつくす

to try all possible means

八十八箇所

はちじゅうはっかしょ

88 temples (of, or modeled after those of, Shikoku)

三八

さんぱち

three and eight