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▶ to live freely in the wilderness ▶ [lit] to sleep on a pillow of stone and rinse one's mouth with river water |
2. | A 2024-02-24 06:23:41 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
1. | A* 2024-02-24 05:31:27 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | https://kotowaza.jitenon.jp/kotowaza/5041.php >> 俗世間から離れ、自然の中で自由な生活をすること。 >> 石を枕にして眠り、起きれば川の水で口を洗うということから。 gg5, sankoku, smk, daijirin, jitenon, etc. Meikyo also describes this phrase in its entry for 石に漱ぎ流れに枕す Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬─────╮ │ 石に枕し流れに漱ぐ │ 105 │ ╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴─────╯ |