つめのあかをせんじてのむ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つめのあかをせんじてのむ – see the following entry.
爪の垢を煎じて飲む
[verb] (idiomatic) learn something (from someone serving as an example), follow in someone's footsteps
(This term, つめのあかをせんじてのむ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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