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The NAIL that sticks up gets hammered downJapanese proverb.1972 J. HOHENBERG New Era in Pacific 145 It will be a long time before the
Japanese give up faith in the group creed: ‘The nail that sticks up must be hammered
down.’ 1982 K. OHMAE Mind of Strategist 228 Whenever I wanted to do my own thing,
I was constantly reminded that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. 1997 New
York Times 1 Aug. (online) Of course, Mr. Irabu still has time to redeem himself. And his
lack of obvious humility—a handicap in his homeland, where an old proverb holds that
‘the nail that sticks up gets hammered down’—can be an asset here. 2007 J. HUIZENGA
‘Ten Tips for Teaching English as a Foreign Language’ on http://www.transitionsabroad.com In
classrooms outside the U.S., however, showing solidarity with classmates.. is often more
important than looking good for the teacher.. This holds true in Japan and China,.. where
proverbs express the cultural idea in a nutshell:.. ‘The nail that stands up must be
pounded down.’ action and consequence; pridenail see when all you have is a HAMMER, everything looks like a nail; ONE nail drives
out another; for WANT of a nail the shoe was lost.
name see give a DOG a bad name and hang him; he that has an ILL name is half hanged;
NO names, no pack-drill.
A NATION without a language is a nation without a heartWelsh proverb; for the Irish equivalent see quot. 2007 and cf. the remark of Irish patriot
Thomas Davis (1814–45): ‘A people without a language of its own is only half a nation’ (’Our
National Language’).
1917 Zionist Review 110 It is recognized that a nation without a language is like a
body without a soul. 1972 Proceedings of the Institute on Narcotic Addition among
Mexican Americans in the South West As one great citizen of this world said, ‘A country
without a language is like a country without a heart.’ 1993 B. THOMAS Industrial
Revolution and Atlantic Economy 229 The striking leveling-off in the rate of decline