のど元 – Vocabulary details

のど元もと

Noun

1. throat

2. important part; vital area

origin

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どもと

throat; singing voice; gutter (inner margins of a book)

origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient

danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; (lit.) once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object)

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