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クレオパトラの鼻
クレオパトラのはな
1. [exp,n]
▶ Cleopatra's nose
▶ [fig] a small thing with a huge influence



History:
3. A 2010-09-13 11:39:53  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I put the original in as an example.
2. A* 2010-09-12 01:28:44  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
koj, daijs
  Comments:
13 hits, inc. edict.  apparently a quote from pascal "Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed"

suggest trimming to クレオパトラの鼻, which koj and daijs have.  the original could go in as an example sentence
  Diff:
@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-<keb>クレオパトラの鼻がもう少し低かったなら世界の歴史は変わっていたであろう</keb>
+<keb>クレオパトラの鼻</keb>
@@ -8,1 +8,1 @@
-<reb>クレオパトラのはながもうすこしひくかったならせかいのれきしはかわっていたであろう</reb>
+<reb>クレオパトラのはな</reb>
@@ -12,2 +12,3 @@
-<misc>&id;</misc>
-<gloss>If Cleopatra's nose had been a little lower, the history of the world might have been different</gloss>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>Cleopatra's nose</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="fig">a small thing with a huge influence</gloss>
1. A 2008-11-21 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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