宝の山に入りながら手を空しくして帰る
たからのやまにいりながらてをむなしくしてかえる
Meanings
- Expression to have a good opportunity only to let it slip from your grasp (literally: to come home empty-handed despite having entered treasure mountain)
Kanji
- 宝 treasure. Read as たから.
- 山 mountain. Read as やま.
- 入 enter. Read as いり.
- 手 hand
- 空 sky. Read as から.
- 帰 return. Read as かえる.