Illustration: On the walk home from school along a Japanese residential lane, a child wearing a randoseru has stopped beside a shallow roadside drainage channel. They crouch with intense interest as a tiny leaf boat slips beneath a little bridge, using a twig to free it from a pebble.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

道みち草くさ

michikusa

to dawdle on the way

道草を食う is a common expression. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 帰かえり道みちで道草みちくさするんじゃないのよ。

    Don’t play around too much after school.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 帰かえり道みちで道草みちくさを食くうんじゃないよ。

    Don’t fool around on your way home.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 子こどものころ、学校帰がっこうがえりの道草みちくさが楽たのしかった。

    When I was a child, I enjoyed dawdling on the way home from school.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 道草

  • 道road-way; streetOnドウ・トウKunみち・いう
  • 草grass; weedsOnソウKunくさ・くさ-

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