ほんまつてんとう – Vocabulary details

ほんまつてんとう

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

Four character compound

1. putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the means for the end; getting one's priorities backwards

ダイエットで体からだを壊こわしたら本ほん末まつ転てん倒とうだ。Ruining your health by dieting would be putting the cart before the horse.

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essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end

fall; falling down; inversion; reversal; getting upset; losing one's presence of mind

ダイエットで体からだを壊こわしたらほんまつてんとうだ。

Ruining your health by dieting would be putting the cart before the horse.

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