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はじめはしょじょのごとくのちはだっとのごとし
Meanings
Expression
Proverb
1. hide your true strength, and then later swiftly attack the unprepared enemy; (lit.) first be like a (meek) virgin, later like a running hare
from Sun Tzu's Art of War
Alt. forms
始はじめは処しょ女じょの如ごとく後のちは脱だっ兎との如ごとし
始はじめは処しょ女じょのごとく後のちは脱だっ兎とのごとし
はじめはしょじょのごとくのちはだっとのごとし
Composed of
at first; in the beginning; originally
virgin; maiden
like; as if; the same as
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
(metaphor for) something unusually fast; (lit.) fleeing hare
like; as if; the same as