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くだをもっててんをうかがう
Meanings
Expression
1. to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; (lit.) to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi)
Alt. forms
管くだを以もって天てんを窺うかがう
くだをもっててんをうかがう
Composed of
pipe; tube
by (means of); with
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer