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百日の説法屁一つ

Hiragana
ひゃくにちのせっぽうへひとつ
Proverb
Japanese Meaning
長い間積み重ねてきた努力や信頼も、ちょっとした失言や軽率な行動ひとつで台無しになってしまうことのたとえ。 / 真面目で厳粛な場でも、わずかな不謹慎な行為によって、場の雰囲気やこれまでの苦労が一瞬でぶちこわしになること。
Easy Japanese Meaning
ながくがんばっても、ちいさなまちがい一つで、すべてだめになるというたとえ
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His long talk is just like 'a hundred days of sermonizing without a fart.'

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“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds

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