門前の小僧 [もんぜんのこぞう] /(exp) (See 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) (proverb) (abbr) you learn, without realising it, from what is around you/a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught)/EntL2799290/