百日の説法屁一つ
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 百 | 日 | 説 | 法 | 屁 | 一 |
| ひゃく Grade: 1 | にち Grade: 1 | せつ > せっ Grade: 4 | ほう > ぽう Grade: 4 | へ Hyōgaiji | ひと Grade: 1 |
Proverb
百日の説法屁一つ (hiragana ひゃくにちのせっぽうへひとつ, rōmaji hyaku nichi no seppō he hitotsu)
- “a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds