<entry id="2209551" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2015160</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>背水の陣</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>背水之陣</keb>
<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>はいすいのじん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&id;</misc>
<gloss>fighting with one's back to the wall</gloss>
<gloss>having burnt one's bridges</gloss>
<gloss>last stand</gloss>
<gloss>last-ditch effort</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2003-12-03 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-09-15 07:00:49" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Nils Roland Barth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Explanation of Chinese origin; “back to the wall” is most 
idiomatic (nuances vary a bit), and “bridges” is more common 
than “boats” in English.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr koj en:WP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu–
Han_Contention#Cultural_references</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,3 @@
+&lt;lsource xml:lang="chi"/&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;fighting with one's back to the wall&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;having burnt one's bridges&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -13,1 +16,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;having burnt one's boats&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="expl"&gt;from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-09-15 12:08:54" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The metaphor may be Chinese but the expression isn't.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,1 +12,0 @@
-&lt;lsource xml:lang="chi"/&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-01-09 07:30:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;id;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 19:24:27" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 背水の陣　　　 │ 66,127 │ 99.1% │
│ 背水之陣　　　 │    166 │  0.2% │ 🡠 adding (jitenon, shinmeikai yoji, gakken yoji)
│ はいすいのじん │    450 │  0.7% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;背水之陣&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;rK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 21:12:06" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-21 23:41:26" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_diff>@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-22 02:51:06" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-22 23:29:22" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The expl gloss should be a note but I don't think it's needed.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>gg5, wisdom</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -21 +21 @@
-&lt;gloss g_type="expl"&gt;from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;last-ditch effort&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-09-23 23:55:37" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>