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才子、才に倒れる才子才に倒れる [sK]
さいし、さいにたおれる
1. [exp,v1] [proverb]
▶ talented men are ruined by their own talent

Conjugations


History:
7. A 2024-03-30 04:01:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5: 才子, 才に倒れる. The downfall of a man of genius is his reliance on it.
  Comments:
I think it was a typo.
  Diff:
@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>才子、才に溺れる</keb>
+<keb>才子、才に倒れる</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>才子才に溺れる</keb>
+<keb>才子才に倒れる</keb>
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<reb>さいし、さいにおぼれる</reb>
+<reb>さいし、さいにたおれる</reb>
6. A* 2024-03-26 19:07:10  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
I wonder what the source was for this entry. All of my refs have 倒れる instead of 溺れる (Daijr/s, koj, gg5, meikyo, kanjipedia, shinsen).

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬────╮
│ 才子才に倒れる │ 52 │
│ 才子才に溺れる │  0 │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11 +12 @@
-<reb>さいしさいにおぼれる</reb>
+<reb>さいし、さいにおぼれる</reb>
5. A 2022-08-01 04:02:34  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Add POS to proverbs
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<pos>&v1;</pos>
4. A 2018-05-22 08:59:17  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2018-05-21 12:54:43  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>才子、才に溺れる</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -13 +16 @@
-<gloss>A man of talent is ruined by his own talent</gloss>
+<gloss>talented men are ruined by their own talent</gloss>
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