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めしのくいあげ
Meanings
Expression
Noun
Idiomatic
1. losing the means of livelihood
Alt. forms
飯
めし
の
食
く
い
上
あ
げ
めしのくいあげ
Composed of
めし
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
くいあげ
losing the means of livelihood;
(arch.)
a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended; (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook