塞翁が馬（さいおうがうま）

Japanese vocabulary

Meaning: the future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate

Idioms & proverbs containing “塞翁が馬”

• 人間万事塞翁が馬 (にんげんばんじさいおうがうま) — inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable

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