Monday, May 18, 2015

にもほどがある

ni mo hodo ga aru
to have a limit, to go to far


(As you might notice, I'm writing this blog again after years away from it. I'm working on a big project, and find myself looking up the same terms again and again. Figured it was time to write them down, in the hopes of learning them more efficiently.)
This is confusing to me, because it literally means 'there is also an extent for', and when plunked into a sentence, it confused me at first. Being able to find it idiomatically in my go-to online dictionary (wwwjdic) was fortunate for me.
I've found this phrase in particular combination with my next entry, お人好し, (ohitoyosi), as in:
お人好しにもほどがあるぜ、おたく
ohitoyosi ni mo hodo ga aru ze, otaku
That's a bit much, even for a softie like you.

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