老ろう婆ば心しん

noun

excessive kindness; solicitude; meddlesome concern

Often used self-deprecatingly or critically for well-meaning but overbearing advice or concern, like that of an old woman. Common in the set phrase 老婆心ながら (at the risk of being meddlesome).

• 老ろう婆ば心しんながら一いち言ごん申もうし上あげます。

  At the risk of being meddlesome, let me say one thing.

• 彼かれの老ろう婆ば心しんには感かん謝しゃしているが、少すこしおせっかいに感かんじることもある。

  I appreciate his solicitude, but sometimes it feels a bit meddlesome.