<entry id="1983078" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<k_ele>
<keb>逆立ちしても</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>さかだちしても</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1227250">逆立ち・1</xref>
<gloss>no matter how hard one might try</gloss>
<gloss>no matter what one does</gloss>
<gloss g_type="lit">even if one stood on one's head</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2013-02-05 06:39:26" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_refs>daijr
新和英中辞典 example:
"君が逆立ちしても, とても彼にはかなわないよ.
You can try till you're blue in the face, but you'll never 
get the better of him. "
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q106
3017460
"高速代だけで２万(中型車、片道深夜割引適用)以上かかりますし、乗務員２名を足
かけ２日、計４日…この時点で既に６万円超えですから、燃料代が出ません。
これでは走ってくれる会社は逆立ちしても無いですね。"</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-02-05 11:54:22" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Daijr, Eijiro</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1227250"&gt;逆立ち&lt;/xref&gt;
@@ -14,0 +15,1 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;even if one stood on one's head&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-18 16:23:42" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>[exp], not [adv].
I don't think "till one's blue in the face" works as a translation. It would have to be "even if you try until you're blue in the face".</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr, gg5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11 +11 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adv;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;exp;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -15,2 +15,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;till one's blue in the face&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;even if one stood on one's head&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;no matter what one does&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;even if one stood on one's head&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-21 12:17:46" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>