据すえ膳ぜん食くわぬ

expression

shameful to reject a woman's advances

Proverb, often abbreviated from 据え膳食わぬは男の恥. Literally 'not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame.' Used to say that a man should not refuse a woman's romantic or sexual invitation.

See also: 据え膳食わぬは男の恥

• 「据すえ膳ぜん食くわぬは男おとこの恥はじ」ということわざがある。

  There is a proverb that says, 'It is a man's shame not to eat the meal set before him.'

• 彼かれは据すえ膳ぜん食くわぬの精せい神しんで、彼かの女じょの誘さそいを受うけた。

  He accepted her invitation in the spirit of 'not refusing what is offered.'