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jmdict 2835698 Active (id: 1979890)
見たり聞いたり
みたりきいたり
1. [exp,n,vs]
▶ seeing and hearing
▶ (from) one's own experiences

Conjugations


History:
6. A 2018-05-23 04:51:00  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I'm always aware of things that aren't handled well by wwwjdic's glossing. This one is very poor, and although the NG version correctly treats it as 見+たり+聞い+たり it's still messy. Yes, the meaning's obvious once you know a bit of Japanese. I think I'll go with it.
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>(from) one's own experiences</gloss>
5. A* 2018-05-23 01:53:19  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Book titles (from a google book search):
中国見たり聞いたり15章: 美紀の北京再訪
シマ・ナイチャーの見聞錄: 沖繩移住者の見たり聞いたり
In this usage, it could be translated as "from one's own experiences" and it seems maybe worthwhile to record... but I went through a couple of 
pages of search results though and these were the only two titles I could find, so maybe not.
Slightly related is 見たり聞いたりためしたり which is the name of a 1947 movie
https://movie.walkerplus.com/mv26693/
and the opening of a seemingly very popular quote from Soichiro Honda (Honda founder):
"人生は見たり、聞いたり、試したりの3つの知恵でまとまっているが、多くの人は見たり聞いたりばかりで一番重要な、「試したり」をほとんどしない"
It gets 0 ngram hits (both with ためしたり and 試したり) but around ~40 on twitter past 24 hrs (including bots.
4. A* 2018-05-23 01:07:57  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
i'm not convinced that it's needed.  i guess it's harmless, but it doesn't really seem necessary
3. A* 2018-05-22 14:02:50  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Kyoto/Melbourne ngrams
見たり聞いたり	3018
見たり聞いたりする	No matches
聞いたり見たり	342
飲んだり食べたり	1176
食べたり飲んだり	1527
食ったり飲んだり	121
飲んだり食ったり	310
寝たり起きたり	1616
起きたり寝たり	137
暑かったり寒かったり	447
寒かったり暑かったり	141
  Comments:
Would you please stop marking entries and entry suggestions as "should be deleted" without providing any rationale?
2. D* 2018-05-22 13:19:12 
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