List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- take care of the penny, he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen
search-only kanji form proverb expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- even the gods drink sake, there's nothing wrong with drinking
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- you learn, without realising it, from what is around you, a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught)
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- capable or not, we are all in the same boat, bats are also birds
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- search thoroughly for something lost before you suspect someone of stealing it, be on sure ground before you accuse someone
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- right triumphs over wrong, law triumphs over right, power triumphs over law, heaven triumphs over power, no man can oppose the divine
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- hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool), an afterwit is everybody's wit
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- the world is a scene of constant changes, a mulberry field changes into a blue sea
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- spare no effort while you are young, heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
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- only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees