沈ちん魚ぎょ落らく雁がん

noun

devastating beauty of a woman

A yojijukugo describing a woman so beautiful that fish forget to swim and sink, and flying geese fall from the sky in shame. Used in classical or literary contexts; not everyday speech.

• 彼かの女じょの美うつくしさはまさに沈ちん魚ぎょ落らく雁がんの趣おもむきがある。

  Her beauty truly has the charm of 'sinking fish and falling geese'.