Words — 31 found
1. eccentric
つのたうしころ
角を矯めて牛を殺す
1. to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cowIdiomatic expression
きょうかくさつぎゅう
矯角殺牛
1. trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; the cure is worse than the diseaseYojijukugo (four character compound)