欲よくの熊くま鷹たか股また裂さく

expression, godan verb (-ku)

greed leads to ruin; grasp all, lose all

Proverb warning that excessive greed causes self-destruction. The literal image is of a hawk-eagle trying to catch two boars at once and splitting apart.

• 欲よくの熊くま鷹たか股また裂さくというように、欲よく張ばりすぎると結けっ局きょく何なにも得えられない。

  As the proverb 'the greedy hawk-eagle splits in half' says, if you are too greedy, you end up with nothing.