つめのあかをせんじてのむ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つめのあかをせんじてのむ – see the following entry.
【爪の垢を煎じて飲む】
[verb] (idiomatic) to take a leaf out of someone's book; to follow in someone's footsteps
(This term, つめのあかをせんじてのむ (tsumenoakaosenjitenomu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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