水心（みずごころ）

Japanese vocabulary

Meaning: knowing how to swim; kindness begets kindness; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

Idioms & proverbs containing “水心”

• 魚心あれば水心 (うおごころあればみずごころ) — kindness begets kindness; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; if a fish is kind to the water, the water will be kind to the fish
• 水心あれば魚心 (みずごころあればうおごころ) — kindness begets kindness; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; if the water is kind to the fish, the fish will be kind to the water
• 魚心あれば水心あり (うおごころあればみずごころあり) — kindness begets kindness; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; if a fish is kind to the water, the water will be kind to the fish

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