木に竹を接ぐ
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[edit]Proverb
[edit]- to graft a bamboo on a tree; to make the situation absurd
- 2016 March 11, Hirokazu Kore-eda, “「歴史修正主義」に抗するために [To Resist Historical Revisionism]”, in KOREEDA.COM[1] (blog):
- 木に竹を接ぐように、水に油を一緒にしたような変更は、「常識では考えられない」と。
- ki ni take o tsugu yō ni, mizu ni abura o isshō ni shita yō na henkō wa, "jōshiki de wa kangaerarenai" to
- [He said] that common sense would not think of changes such as grafting bamboo to a tree, or adding oil to water.