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jmdict 2049120 Deleted (id: 2229144)
滄海一滴
そうかいいってき
1. [n]
▶ a drop in the ocean (bucket)



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5. D 2023-04-21 09:39:42  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
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It's not in any of the yojijukugo dictionaries we typically check. It can go.
4. D* 2023-04-19 13:29:44  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
滄海一滴	0	0.0%
滄海の一滴	0	0.0%
滄海一雫	0	0.0%
滄海の一雫	0	0.0%
  Comments:
Vote delete, curious what references back this up.  There are some kotowaza dictionaries that list this as 類語 for 九牛一毛, but nothing I could find where this was a top-level entry. 

Instead of this, actually common on twitter, but not in kokukos or jmdict, the much simpler: 海の一滴.  But we wouldn't likely create an entry for that. Why this?
https://twitter.com/search?q=海の一滴&src=typed_query&f=live

蒼海一滴集 was the title of a single essay collection, and shows up in some searches.  Different kanji for 滄 though.

The [yoji] tag was removed in August as part of a cleanup.  If this was "real", I would think it would have been actually used as [yoji].

For comparison, this similar expression actually exists:
滄海の一粟	201

Another one we have that doesn't exist in any significant measure:
大海一滴	No matches
3. A 2022-08-01 02:17:07  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Remove unsupported yoji tag
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<misc>&yoji;</misc>
2. A 2014-08-25 02:13:39  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Kanji Haitani list
  Comments:
Adding yoji tagAdding yoji tag
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<misc>&yoji;</misc>
1. A 2005-06-10 00:00:00 
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