<entry id="2221969" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2416960</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>魚心あれば水心あり</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>うおごころあればみずごころあり</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1810770">魚心あれば水心</xref>
<misc>&proverb;</misc>
<gloss>kindness begets kindness</gloss>
<gloss>you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours</gloss>
<gloss g_type="lit">if a fish is kind to the water, the water will be kind to the fish</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2008-11-21 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2010-08-27 18:24:18" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;魚心あれば水心あり&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -12,0 +15,1 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1810770"&gt;魚心あれば水心&lt;/xref&gt;
@@ -13,1 +17,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2010-08-28 02:52:27" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-12-04 08:25:33" stat="A">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +16 @@
-&lt;misc&gt;&amp;id;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;proverb;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-11-19 10:46:24" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Converting somebody to someone
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -17 +17 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;if you do a favor for someone, you will get a return favor&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-09 18:36:36" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Not necessarily *doing* a favour.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/kindness+begets+kindness</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,2 +17 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;if you do a favor for someone, you will get a return favor&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;kindness begets kindness&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -19,0 +19 @@
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;if a fish is kind to the water, the water will be kind to the fish&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-10 04:09:55" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-15 03:15:57" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>I only see the こころ version in koj, and it redirects to a ごころ version.
The rest of my refs (sankoku, daijs, obunsha) have ごころ in this expression.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー─┬─────╮
│ 魚心あれば水心あり　　　　　　 │ 537 │
│ 魚心有れば水心有り　　　　　　 │   0 │ - drop (not in my refs)
│ うおこころあればみずこころあり │   0 │ - change to ごころ
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー─┴─────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -7,3 +6,0 @@
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;魚心有れば水心有り&lt;/keb&gt;
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -11 +8 @@
-&lt;reb&gt;うおこころあればみずこころあり&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;うおごころあればみずごころあり&lt;/reb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-15 22:52:18" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>