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Japaneseblind wordfood

kuidaore

食い倒れkoo-ee-dah-OH-reh[kɯidaoɾe]

ruining yourself through extravagance on food

Closest in English: extravagance, gluttony, splurging. None of them covers it.

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The story

Kui is eating and daore is falling over, and Osaka wears the word as a motto: people there would sooner go broke on food than on anything else. An old saying pairs it with Kyoto, where people ruin themselves on kimono instead. English has the splurge, one dinner at a time.

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  1. Which language is it from?Japanese
  2. What does it literally say?Eat-till-you-drop
  3. Where would you hear it?A night of Osaka street-food stalls
  4. What does it mean?Going broke on good food

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