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December 05, 2010
Manaita no Ue no Koi "carp on the cutting board"
This fatalistic expression is used when one feels helpless to control one's immediate destiny. The foreboding overtone comes from the knowledge of what inevitably befalls a fish laid out on a cutting board.
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