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2866355 jmdict A [id=2343292]
白髪三千丈
はくはつさんぜんじょう
[1][exp][form]
  [note="oft. used hyperbolically"]
  many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); 
  [lit] three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
  [see=2145400・丈・じょう[1]]



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