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2834566 jmdict A [id=2152273]
剣を落として舟を刻む
けんをおとしてふねをきざむ
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  [note="from a story in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals"]
  to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing; 
  [lit] to drop one's sword (in the river) and carve (a mark) on the boat (to mark the spot where the sword was dropped)


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