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行きはよいよい帰りは怖い行きは良い良い帰りは怖い [sK] 行きはよいよい帰りはこわい [sK] いきはよいよい帰りは怖い [sK]
いきはよいよいかえりはこわいゆきはよいよいかえりはこわい
1. [exp,adj-i] [proverb]
《from the Edo-period children's song "Tōryanse"》
▶ going there is easy but coming back is scary

Conjugations


History:
11. A 2023-11-01 10:44:44  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
10. A* 2023-11-01 07:51:22  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
e.g.
行きはよいよい 	16171	80.1%
いきはよいよい 	887	4.4%
ゆきはよいよい   	31	0.2%
行きは良い良い	3096	15.3%


よいよい帰りは怖い 	3222	53.9%
よいよい帰りはこわい	1390	23.3%
よいよい帰りは恐い 	446	7.5%
良い良い帰りは怖い 	765	12.8%
良い良い帰りはこわい	36	0.6%
良い良い帰りは恐い 	117	2.0%
9. A* 2023-11-01 07:48:33  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Since the actual meaning isnt well understood, I think a more literl gloss makes more sense.

Btw isn't the string too long for the ngrams? See the ones I posted when I originally submitted this.
  Diff:
@@ -30 +30 @@
-<gloss>going there is easy but coming back is hard</gloss>
+<gloss>going there is easy but coming back is scary</gloss>
8. A* 2023-11-01 05:24:22  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
〈行/い/ゆ〉きは〈良/よ〉い〈良/よ〉い〈帰/かえ〉りは〈怖/こわ〉い

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーーーーー─┬────╮
│ 行きはよいよい帰りは怖い   │  0 │
│ 行きは良い良い帰りは怖い   │  0 │ - sK
│ 行きはよいよい帰りはこわい  │  0 │ - sK
│ いきはよいよい帰りは怖い   │ 59 │ - add, sK
│ いきはよいよいかえりはこわい │  0 │
│ ゆきはよいよいかえりはこわい │  0 │
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーーーーー─┴────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +13,5 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>いきはよいよい帰りは怖い</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
7. A 2022-08-01 04:02:32  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Add POS to proverbs
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -20,0 +21 @@
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
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