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Japanese
Etymology
Literally, "left olive flounder, right righteye flounder."
Idiom
左鮃右鰈 • (hidari hirame migi karei)
- The way to distinguish an olive flounder from a righteye flounder. 鮃 (hirame, “olive flounder”) can be distinguished from 鰈 (karei, “righteye flounder”) by noting that the eyes of the former are on the left and the eyes of the latter are on the right.