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焼やけ石いしに水みず
Meanings
Expression
Idiomatic
1. a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; pointless exercise; waste of time; (something that is) too little, too late; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone
Kanji used
焼
roast
石
stone
水
water
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hot stone; heated stone
water (esp. cool or cold); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout