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窮鼠猫を噛む窮鼠猫をかむ窮鼠ネコを噛む [sK] 窮鼠ネコをかむ [sK] きゅうそ猫をかむ [sK]
きゅうそねこをかむ
1. [exp,v5m] [proverb]
▶ a cornered rat will bite a cat
▶ despair gives courage to a coward
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2043730 窮鼠噛猫【きゅうそごうびょう】 1. a cornered rat will bite the cat; one who is cornered will fight like a devil
  ⇐ see: 1742050 窮鼠【きゅうそ】 1. cornered rat

Conjugations


History:
11. A 2022-09-21 00:19:51  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
OK.
10. A* 2022-09-20 11:10:10  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://www.english-for-students.com/despair-gives-courage-to-a-coward.html
daijr: "追い詰められた鼠が猫に噛みつくように,弱者も逃げられない窮地に追い込まれれば強者に必死の反撃をして苦しめる。"
  Comments:
I think that gloss is fine (although the actual quote, by Thomas Fuller, is "despair gives courage to a coward"). The meanings seem more or less equivalent.
  Diff:
@@ -29,0 +30 @@
+<gloss>despair gives courage to a coward</gloss>
9. A* 2022-09-20 06:01:17  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I'm not a fan of the non-lit gloss. I was trying to come up with/find something similar in English, but the literal gloss is self-explanatory and pithy.
  Diff:
@@ -30 +29,0 @@
-<gloss>despair turns cowards courageous</gloss>
8. A 2022-09-20 01:57:22  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2022-09-19 19:58:08  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 窮鼠猫を噛む    │ 6,655 │ 78.5% │
│ 窮鼠猫をかむ    │ 1,318 │ 15.6% │ 🡠 adding
│ 窮鼠ネコを噛む   │   241 │  2.8% │ 🡠 adding
│ 窮鼠ネコをかむ   │    88 │  1.0% │ 🡠 adding
│ きゅうそ猫をかむ  │    20 │  0.2% │ 🡠 adding (may as well?)
│ 窮鼠ねこを噛む   │     0 │  0.0% │
│ 窮鼠ねこをかむ   │     0 │  0.0% │
│ 窮鼠ねこを嚙む   │     0 │  0.0% │
│ 窮鼠ネコを嚙む   │     0 │  0.0% │
│ 窮鼠猫を嚙む    │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそねこを噛む │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそねこを嚙む │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそネコを噛む │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそネコをかむ │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそネコを嚙む │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそ猫を噛む  │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそ猫を嚙む  │     0 │  0.0% │
│ きゅうそねこをかむ │   153 │  1.8% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,15 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>窮鼠猫をかむ</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>窮鼠ネコを噛む</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>窮鼠ネコをかむ</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>きゅうそ猫をかむ</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
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