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休む やすむ N5

  1. to be absent; to take a day off
  2. to have a break; to rest
  3. to (lie down to) sleep; to go to bed; to retire; to turn in
  4. to stop doing some ongoing activity for a time; to suspend business

下手な考え休むに似たり へたなかんがえやすむににたり

  1. inadequate ideas are worse than none at all; it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep

下手の考え休むに似たり へたのかんがえやすむににたり

  1. inadequate ideas are worse than none at all; it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep
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