<entry id="2289453" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<ent_seq>2743400</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>駟も舌に及ばず</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>しもしたにおよばず</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<misc>&proverb;</misc>
<gloss>rumors travel faster than a four-horse carriage</gloss>
<gloss>a word once uttered cannot be recalled</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-09-12 14:48:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Scott</upd_name>
<upd_refs>koj daij</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-04 01:13:47" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;talking so fast that even a four horse coach cannot catch up to the words&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;talking so fast that even a four-horse coach cannot catch up to the words&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-14 23:18:50" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Nothing to do with talking fast.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijirin, shinsen
kanjipedia: https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kotoba/0002832400
jitenon: https://kotowaza.jitenon.jp/kotowaza/1044.php

gg5
駟（し）も舌に及ばず. | A 「word ［rumor］ travels faster than a coach and four. | A rumor gets around in no time （so watch what you say）.

saitō
言一度出づれば駟も舌に及ばず | “A word once uttered can not be recalled.”

〈駟／し／シ〉も〈舌／した／シタ〉に〈及／およ〉ばず

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
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│ 駟も舌に及ばず │ 57 │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;talking so fast that even a four-horse coach cannot catch up to the words&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;proverb;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;rumors travel faster than a four-horse carriage&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-15 01:30:45" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-15 11:08:35" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>I think saito is much closer here to daijisen's, jitenon's definitions?</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-21 21:49:03" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>OK, I'll add that.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,0 +14 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;a word once uttered cannot be recalled&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>