ドル箱

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
箱
はこ > ばこ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

From ドル (doru, “dollar”) + 箱(はこ) (hako, “box”), coined by analogy with 千(せん)両(りょう)箱(ばこ) (senryōbako). The hako changes to bako as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

ドル箱(ばこ) • (dorubako) 

  1. (informal) someone or something lucrative; cash cow

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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