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<entry id="2294217" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2834239</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>武士は食わねど高楊枝</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>武士はくわねど高楊枝</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ぶしはくわねどたかようじ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<misc>&proverb;</misc>
<gloss>the samurai glories in honourable poverty</gloss>
<gloss>keep a stiff upper lip!</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2018-01-09 09:22:21" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daij, kotowaza, saito, tanaka corpus, Wikipedia日英京都関連
文書対訳コーパス
The semi-[lit] gloss is from saito (and also in the 1989 
book "The Future Japan" (on google books))</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-01-14 06:11:45" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -14 +14 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;keep a stiff upper lip&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;keeping a stiff upper lip&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-01-14 07:21:53" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I think "keep a stiff upper lip" in the imperative is 
better as I take this proverb as an encouragement to behave 
in this manner, not just a description of it.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-01-14 10:00:30" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'll make that clearer. I thought it was just a verb form.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -14 +14 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;keeping a stiff upper lip&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;keep a stiff upper lip!&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-03-12 18:44:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>〈武士/ぶし/ブシ〉は〈食/く〉わねど〈高/たか/タカ〉〈楊枝/ようじ/ヨウジ〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーー─┬───────╮
│ 武士は食わねど高楊枝 │ 8,863 │
│ 武士はくわねど高楊枝 │   480 │ - add, sK
╰─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;武士はくわねど高楊枝&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>



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