jmdict 2833936 Active (id#1968357)
地獄で仏に会ったよう
【 じごくでほとけにあったよう 】
  1. [exp,adv] [id]
    • with great relief
    • as if meeting a friend in need
    • [lit] as if having met a Buddha in hell
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2860657 地獄に仏【じごくにほとけ】 1. manna from heaven; an oasis in the desert; godsend; good fortune when one needed it most; meeting a good Samaritan in one's hour of need; (meeting) Buddha in hell
History:
    • A 2018-01-15 22:46:25 Jim Breen
    • Refs
      ルミナス
    • Diff
      @@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>as if meeting a friend in need</gloss>
    • A* 2017-12-02 06:24:22 Marcus Richert
    • Comments
      adv? hard to gloss. feel free to improve.
    • Refs
      daij, prog:

"地獄で仏に会った心地だった
He was a godsend (to me in my distress)."

also two shorter variatns, "地獄で仏" and "地獄に仏"
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