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Japanese
| Alternative spelling
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| 靑菜に鹽 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
青菜 (“green vegetables”) + に (“to”) + 塩 (“salt”). Literally "put salt on vegetables (and thus it shrivels)"
Idiom
青菜に塩 • (aona ni shio)
- depressed
- 青菜に塩をかけたようだ。
- Aona ni shio o kaketa yō da.
- to look depressed