English Dictionary

never meet your heroes

ことわざ

It is unwise to seek personal acquaintance with people whom one has regarded with high esteem, as they often fail to fulfill one's expectations, resulting in disappointment.

日本語の意味

憧れの人物や英雄に実際に会おうとすると、理想と現実のギャップにより失望することが多いため、慕いすぎる人物との直接の接触は避けるべきという戒めを表しています。

As the old proverb warns, never meet your heroes; when I finally introduced myself to the author I admired, I discovered he was impatient and petty and felt deeply disappointed.

ことわざが警告するように、憧れの人に個人的に会うのは賢明ではない。尊敬していた作家にようやく自己紹介したとき、彼がせっかちで心の狭い人だと分かり、とても失望した。

意味（1）

It is unwise to seek personal acquaintance with people whom one has regarded with high esteem, as they often fail to fulfill one's expectations, resulting in disappointment.

I'm a great believer in the maxim that you should never meet your heroes. I thought of these artists as rebellious, ink-spattered heroes, righting wrongs. What if they turned out to be ranting misanthropes or monosyllabic recluses?