<entry id="2293617" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2082110</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>ミイラ取りがミイラになる</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>木乃伊取りが木乃伊になる</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ミイラとりがミイラになる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<misc>&id;</misc>
<gloss>intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself</gloss>
<gloss>going for wool and coming home shorn</gloss>
<gloss>the biter bit</gloss>
<gloss g_type="lit">the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2006-04-28 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2010-06-11 08:05:18" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_diff>@@ -15,0 +15,1 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;going for wool and coming home shorn&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-07-09 19:14:36" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Nils Roland Barth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>“The hunter becomes the hunted” is an almost perfect idiomatic translation, so add it.
Also add [lit] tag to the lit translation, and [fig] for the more figurative “going for wool” translation.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,1 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy (lit)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;the hunter becomes the hunted&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -15,1 +16,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;going for wool and coming home shorn&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="fig"&gt;going for wool and coming home shorn&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-07-11 07:48:10" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,1 +13,1 @@
-&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;going for wool and coming home shorn&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -16,1 +16,1 @@
-&lt;gloss g_type="fig"&gt;going for wool and coming home shorn&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-12-15 07:29:05" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Nils Roland Barth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>* Add [exp] (explanatory) translations, which *really* clarify things for me.
I heard this used in the “intending to persuade and instead being persuaded oneself” sense (which as per 広辞苑 is the current sense).
The figurative translations are idiomatic in English (indicate a similar reversal), but have completely different meanings (e.g., “going for wool” means “seeking to get rich, but ending up losing money”), unrelated to the *persuasion* sense (I don’t know a good English idiom for this sense).</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>広辞苑
(I can read 広辞苑 better now, 5 months on…)</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,3 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="expl"&gt;(original sense) going out to fetch someone and not returning (ending up a mummy in the tomb)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -16,1 +19,0 @@
-&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-12-16 22:42:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I think it was too long and repetitive. The message is clear with only a few glosses.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,3 +13,0 @@
-&lt;gloss g_type="expl"&gt;(original sense) going out to fetch someone and not returning (ending up a mummy in the tomb)&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;the hunter becomes the hunted&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -18,1 +15,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;the one who bites get bitten instead&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss g_type="lit"&gt;the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-12-17 01:34:42" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-12-04 09:46:39" 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="2024-03-07 06:31:16" stat="A">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ ミイラ取りがミイラになる │ 5,060 │ 86.4% │
│ 木乃伊取りが木乃伊になる │   161 │  2.8% │ - add, sK (ateji form)
│ ミイラとりがミイラになる │   633 │ 10.8% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;木乃伊取りが木乃伊になる&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>