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It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them. / Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.

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a bad workman always blames his tools

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a bad workman always blames his tools

ことわざ

It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them. / Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.

日本語の意味

道具そのものではなく、道具の使い方が結果を左右するという考え方 / 自分の技量不足を道具に責任転嫁する様子を戒める表現 / 失敗した時には、実際の技量や工夫よりも与えられた道具に責任を求める傾向を示す