家か鶏けい野や鶩ぼく

noun

bored by the familiar, intrigued by novelty

A yojijukugo expressing the idea that one tires of the ordinary and is drawn to the new. The literal image is of a domestic chicken and a wild duck.

• 「家か鶏けい野や鶩ぼく」という言こと葉ばは、身み近ぢかなものに飽あきて新あたらしいものを求もとめる心こころを表あらわす。

  The phrase 家鶏野鶩 expresses the feeling of growing tired of the familiar and seeking novelty.

noun

one's wife and one's mistress

A rare, extended figurative use contrasting the domestic (wife) with the wild (mistress).

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは「家か鶏けい野や鶩ぼく」を妻つまと愛あい人じんのたとえに使つかうことがある。

  In old texts, 家鶏野鶩 is sometimes used as a metaphor for one's wife and mistress.