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A 2024-01-21 21:49:03 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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OK, I'll add that. |
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+<gloss>a word once uttered cannot be recalled</gloss> |
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A* 2024-01-15 11:08:35
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I think saito is much closer here to daijisen's, jitenon's definitions? |
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A 2024-01-15 01:30:45 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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A* 2024-01-14 23:18:50 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
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daijirin, shinsen
kanjipedia: https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kotoba/0002832400
jitenon: https://kotowaza.jitenon.jp/kotowaza/1044.php
gg5
駟（し）も舌に及ばず. | A 「word ［rumor］ travels faster than a coach and four. | A rumor gets around in no time （so watch what you say）.
saitō
言一度出づれば駟も舌に及ばず | “A word once uttered can not be recalled.”
〈駟／し／シ〉も〈舌／した／シタ〉に〈及／およ〉ばず
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
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│ 駟も舌に及ばず │ 57 │
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Nothing to do with talking fast. |
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-<gloss>talking so fast that even a four-horse coach cannot catch up to the words</gloss>
+<misc>&proverb;</misc>
+<gloss>rumors travel faster than a four-horse carriage</gloss> |
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A 2012-10-04 01:13:47 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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-<gloss>talking so fast that even a four horse coach cannot catch up to the words</gloss>
+<gloss>talking so fast that even a four-horse coach cannot catch up to the words</gloss> |
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A* 2012-09-12 14:48:04 Scott
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koj daij |