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 (tsumenoakaosenjitenomu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)