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Trad. 關東煮
- oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth
- burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife
Trad. 焚琴煮鶴
- lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes
- fig. to waste valuable resources
- to destroy wantonly beautiful things
Trad. 生米煮成熟飯
- the rice is cooked
- what's done is done
- it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
Trad. 煮熟的鴨子飛了
- the cooked duck flew away (proverb)
- (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers