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jmdict 1240560 Active (id: 2281952)
玉の輿に乗る玉の輿にのる [sK]
たまのこしにのる
1. [exp,v5r]
▶ to marry into a family of rank
▶ to marry money
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1240550 玉の輿【たまのこし】 2. money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man

Conjugations


History:
6. A 2023-11-02 20:05:52  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2023-11-02 18:34:16  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Wikipedia says "gold digging" is close in meaning, but I'm not sure if it's close enough to warrant a gloss.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ゴールドディギング
日本語の玉の輿に近い概念である。

〈玉/たま/タマ〉の〈輿/こし/コシ〉に〈乗/の〉る

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 玉の輿に乗る   │ 4,109 │ 77.9% │
│ 玉の輿にのる   │ 1,100 │ 20.9% │ - add, sK
│ 玉のこしに乗る  │    63 │  1.2% │
│ たまのこしにのる │     0 │  0.0% │
├─ーーーーーーーー─┼───────┼───────┤
│ 玉の輿に乗っ   │ 2,267 │ 73.3% │
│ 玉の輿にのっ   │   757 │ 24.5% │
│ 玉のこしに乗っ  │    67 │  2.2% │
│ たまのこしにのっ │     0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>玉の輿にのる</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
4. A 2011-12-07 21:56:41  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Open long enough for comments. I think I'll leave the original entry as it was.
  Diff:
@@ -15,2 +15,0 @@
-<gloss>to ride the gravy train</gloss>
-<gloss>to be a gold-digger</gloss>
3. A* 2011-12-05 01:16:23  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
It may be dated, but it gets a LOT of WWW hits.
I really can't see a case for the extra glosses based on one Eijiro example. I think we need more evidence that it really has such a derogatory implication.
2. A* 2011-12-03 10:12:22  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
英辞郎
  Comments:
* Add other glosses
* A note: this term is a bit dated, AFAICT – not archaic, but old-fashioned.
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +15,2 @@
+<gloss>to ride the gravy train</gloss>
+<gloss>to be a gold-digger</gloss>
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