jmdict 2407990 Active (id#2130611)
下手な考え休むに似たり
【 へたなかんがえやすむににたり 】
  1. [exp] [proverb]
    • it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one
    • they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep
    • inadequate ideas are worse than none at all
    Cross references:
    • ⇔ see: 2416750 下手の考え休むに似たり 1. it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all
History:
    • A 2021-07-22 15:10:25 Marcus Richert
    • Diff
      @@ -14,4 +14,3 @@
-<gloss>It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one</gloss>
-<gloss>They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep</gloss>
-<gloss>Poor thinking is futile</gloss>
-<gloss>Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all</gloss>
+<gloss>it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one</gloss>
+<gloss>they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep</gloss>
+<gloss>inadequate ideas are worse than none at all</gloss>
    • A 2014-12-03 04:18:32 Marcus Richert
    • Diff
      @@ -12,2 +12,2 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2416750">下手の考え休むに似たり・へたのかんがえやすむににたり</xref>
-<misc>&id;</misc>
+<xref type="see" seq="2416750">下手の考え休むに似たり</xref>
+<misc>&proverb;</misc>
    • A 2013-08-02 23:58:28 Rene Malenfant
    • A* 2013-07-15 00:12:03 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      Aligning glosses.
    • Refs
      新和英中辞典, ルミナス
    • Diff
      @@ -12,2 +12,7 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1281000">考え・1</xref>
-<gloss>take a rest rather than useless thinking</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="2416750">下手の考え休むに似たり・へたのかんがえやすむににたり</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2416750">下手の考え休むに似たり・へたのかんがえやすむににたり</xref>
+<misc>&id;</misc>
+<gloss>It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one</gloss>
+<gloss>They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep</gloss>
+<gloss>Poor thinking is futile</gloss>
+<gloss>Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all</gloss>
    • A* 2013-07-12 04:44:45 Marcus Richert
    • Comments
      this and twin entry 下手の考え休むに似たり (which is also in 
daijs) should have the same definition.
the current defs for 下手の考え休むに似たり are:
"It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one" &
Mickle fails that fools think"
the "Mickle..." seems to be a jmdictism? very few hits 
outside the Japanese web.
    • Refs
      prog: "It is a waste of time to think a matter over when one 
has no good ideas."
新和英中辞典　”Inadequate ideas are [Inadequate thinking is] 
worse than none at all."
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