JLPT N2Four-character idioms
一石二鳥
- Meaning
- 一つの行為で二つの利益を得ること
- Explanation
- 「一石二鳥」, from the sense of bringing down two birds at once with a single stone, expresses gaining two benefits with one act. It originally comes from a translation of an English proverb. c3 is the opposite in that the stone is thrown and 「misses」; the correct point is that you reliably gain both, not aim and fail.
Original Japanese explanation
「一石二鳥」は、一つの石で二羽の鳥を同時に落とす意から、一つの行為で二つの利益を得ることを表します。元は英語の諺の訳語です。c3は石を投げて「取り逃がす」点が逆で、ねらって失敗するのではなく確実に両方得るのが正解です。
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