Vocabulary
What does 花より団子 (はなよりだんご) mean?
花より団子 (はなよりだんご) means preferring practical benefits (like food or material things) over aesthetic beauty or romance (lit. dumplings rather than flowers).
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花より団子はなよりだんご
TOPICS
preferring practical benefits (like food or material things) over aesthetic beauty or romance (lit. dumplings rather than flowers)
Example sentences
桜を見に来たのに屋台ばかり回っていて、私たちはすっかり花より団子だ。
We came to see the cherry blossoms, yet we are only going around the food stalls—we truly prefer dumplings over flowers.