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What a Japanese person actually thinksRecognisably imported. Japanese people will understand it fine and will also clock it as a translation of a Western phrase.
Meaning
- Literally
- blood and sweat and tears
- Actually
- Understandable, and 血と汗 does exist in Japanese. But the three-item English set phrase isn't native, so it reads as a quotation from elsewhere.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Each word is right; the specific triple is an English idiom wearing Japanese clothes.
Coolness●●●●●
The repeated と particles make it visually choppy — five characters of content and two of grammar.
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刻苦勉励
kokku benrei
toiling to the bone at one's studies or workThe Japanese four-character idiom for grinding effort. Dense and native.
On skin
血と汗と涙
Orientation: vertical
Mincho.