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Japanese
Etymology
From the Analects of Confucius, a calque of Literary Chinese 割雞焉用牛刀 (gējī yān yòng niúdāo, literally “why use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken?”).
Proverb
鶏を割くにいずくんぞ牛刀を用いん • (niwatori o saku ni izukunzo gyūtō o mochiin)
- something big is not necessary to handle small problems
Synonyms
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN