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▶ intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself ▶ going for wool and coming home shorn ▶ the biter bit ▶ [lit] the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy |
9. | A 2024-03-07 06:31:16 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
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─┴───────┴───────╯ |
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Diff: | @@ -5,0 +6,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>木乃伊取りが木乃伊になる</keb> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> |
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8. | A 2017-12-04 09:46:39 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
Diff: | @@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<misc>&id;</misc> |
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7. | A 2011-12-17 01:34:42 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...> | |
6. | A* 2011-12-16 22:42:04 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
Comments: | I think it was too long and repetitive. The message is clear with only a few glosses. |
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Diff: | @@ -13,3 +13,0 @@ -<gloss g_type="expl">(original sense) going out to fetch someone and not returning (ending up a mummy in the tomb)</gloss> -<gloss g_type="lit">the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy</gloss> -<gloss>the hunter becomes the hunted</gloss> @@ -18,1 +15,1 @@ -<gloss>the one who bites get bitten instead</gloss> +<gloss g_type="lit">the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy</gloss> |
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5. | A* 2011-12-15 07:29:05 Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | 広辞苑 (I can read 広辞苑 better now, 5 months on…) |
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Comments: | * 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). |
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Diff: | @@ -12,0 +12,3 @@ +<gloss>intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself</gloss> +<gloss g_type="expl">(original sense) going out to fetch someone and not returning (ending up a mummy in the tomb)</gloss> +<gloss g_type="lit">the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy</gloss> @@ -16,1 +19,0 @@ -<gloss g_type="lit">the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy</gloss> |
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