(To move to the mountains and become a hermit) To sprout wings and fly up to the sky. It is also a metaphor for getting drunk and feeling otherworldly good. [Example] If you want to truly enjoy the sensation of flying and becoming a bird, you can't just look out of the window of a big plane. [Uchida Hyakken * Hyakkien Essays | 1933] [Example] He was so soft, as if he had no muscles, I couldn't feel his bones. This was also strange. I thought that if I slept with him one night, I would enter the state of enlightenment. [Fumiko Enchi * Sagiri | 1976] [Explanation] "Emerging" usually refers to an insect's transformation from a chrysalis to an adult and the growth of wings, but here it refers to a person becoming a celestial immortal with the power to ascend to heaven, and growing wings to do so. "Tosen" means becoming a celestial immortal and ascending to heaven, and is based on the Chinese idea of immortality. Nowadays, it is used without such ideological background to mean "feeling like you're ascending to heaven." Source: Dictionary of Four-character Idioms About Dictionary of Four-character Idioms Information |
(山に移り住んで仙人となり)羽が生えて、天にのぼること。また、酒に酔うなどして、この世ならぬよい気分になることのたとえ。 [使用例] 飛行機に乗って本当に羽化登仙の感興をほしいままにするには、大きな飛行機の窓から覗いているのでは駄目です[内田百閒*百鬼園随筆|1933] [使用例] まるで筋肉のないみたいに軟かくって、骨格が感じられないんだよ。これもまた不思議でね。この人と一晩寝たら、羽化登仙の境に入るのではないかと思ったのさ[円地文子*彩霧|1976] [解説] 「羽化」はふつう昆虫について、さなぎから成虫になり、羽が生えることをいいますが、ここでは人が天仙といって天にのぼる力のある仙人となり、そのための羽が生えること。「登仙」はその天仙になり天にのぼることで、中国の神仙思想にもとづいています。現在ではそうした思想の背景なしに、「天にのぼるような気分」の意味に用います。 出典 四字熟語を知る辞典四字熟語を知る辞典について 情報 |
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