Results, #proverb
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- 子で子にならぬほととぎす【こでこにならぬほととぎす】子で子にならぬ時鳥
expression:
- no matter how lovingly raised, a foster child is not actually one's biological child - proverb - obscure term
- 弓は袋に太刀は鞘【ゆみはふくろにたちはさや】
expression:
- the world is at peace; bows in bags and swords in sheaths [literal] - proverb
- 豚も煽てりゃ木に登る【ぶたもおだてりゃきにのぼる】豚もおだてりゃ木に登る
expression:
- even those of low ability can outdo themselves when flattered - proverb
- 鰯の頭も信心から【いわしのあたまもしんじんから・いわしのかしらもしんじんから】
expression:
- faith is mysterious; through faith, even something trivial (like a pilchard's head) seems valuable - proverb
- 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く【いちえんをわらうものはいちえんになく】
expression:
- take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen [literal] - proverb
- お神酒上がらぬ神はない【おみきあがらぬかみはない】御神酒上がらぬ神はない
expression:
- even the gods drink sake; there's nothing wrong with drinking - proverb
- 門前の小僧【もんぜんのこぞう】
expression:
- you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught) [literal] - proverb - abbreviation ➜ 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】
- 蝙蝠も鳥のうち【こうもりもとりのうち】蝙蝠も鳥の内
expression:
- capable or not, we are all in the same boat; bats are also birds [literal] - proverb
- 七度尋ねて人を疑え【ななたびたずねてひとをうたがえ・しちどたずねてひとをうたがえ】
expression:
- search thoroughly for something lost before you suspect someone of stealing it; be on sure ground before you accuse somebody - proverb
- 非理法権天【ひりほうけんてん】
expression:
- right triumphs over wrong, law triumphs over right, power triumphs over law, heaven triumphs over power; no man can oppose the divine - banner used by 14th century samurai Kusunoki Masashige - proverb
- 下衆の後知恵【げすのあとぢえ】下種の後知恵・下司の後知恵・げすの後知恵・下種のあと知恵
expression:
- hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool); an afterwit is everybody's wit - proverb
- 桑田変じて滄海となる【そうでんへんじてそうかいとなる】桑田変じて滄海と成る
expression:
- the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea [literal] - proverb
- 若い時の苦労は買ってもせよ【わかいときのくろうはかってもせよ】若いときの苦労は買ってもせよ
expression:
- spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb
- 葷酒山門に入るを許さず【くんしゅさんもんにいるをゆるさず】
expression:
- bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited - proverb - Buddhism term
- 花は桜木人は武士【はなはさくらぎひとはぶし】
expression:
- the best flowers are the cherry blossoms, the best individuals are the samurai; as the cherry blossom is first among flowers, so is the samurai first among men - proverb
- 山中の賊を破るは易く心中の賊を破るは難し【さんちゅうのぞくをやぶるはやすくしんちゅうのぞくをやぶるはかたし】
expression:
- it's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard [literal] - proverb
- 傍らに人無きが如し【かたわらにひとなきがごとし】傍らに人無きがごとし・傍らに人なきがごとし
expression:
- behaving outrageously as though there were no one around; doing whatever one wants even though others may be watching - proverb ➜ 傍若無人【ぼうじゃくぶじん】
- 塞翁が馬【さいおうがうま】
expression:
- the future is unpredictable; unscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate - proverb ➜ 人間万事塞翁が馬
- 泥棒を捕らえて縄を綯う【どろぼうをとらえてなわをなう】泥棒を捕らえて縄をなう
expression:
- starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught - proverb ➜ 泥縄【どろなわ】・泥縄式【どろなわしき】
- 白駒の隙を過ぐるが如し【はっくのげきをすぐるがごとし】
expression:
- time flies; like watching a white horse run by through a gap in the wall (Zhuangzi) [literal] - proverb
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