百ひゃく里りを行ゆく者ものは九く十じゅうを半なかばとす

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don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip

Proverb warning that the final stage of a task is often the hardest, and one should not become complacent before completion. Literally: 'One who travels 100 ri considers 90 ri to be the halfway point.'

• 「百ひゃく里りを行ゆく者ものは九く十じゅうを半なかばとす」というから、最さい後ごまで気きを抜ぬくな。

  As the saying goes, 'He who travels a hundred ri counts ninety as halfway,' so don't let your guard down until the very end.