捨しゃ万ばん求きゅう一いつ

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

forsaking all else for one goal

A literary four-character idiom meaning to abandon ten thousand things to pursue one. Used for single-minded focus, often in formal or written contexts.

• 彼かれは捨しゃ万ばん求きゅう一いつの精せい神しんで研けん究きゅうに打うち込こんだ。

  He devoted himself to research with a spirit of forsaking all else for one goal.

• 捨しゃ万ばん求きゅう一いつの決けつ断だんが、時ときに大おおきな成せい果かを生うむ。

  A decision to abandon everything for one objective sometimes yields great results.