道みち草くさを食くう

expression, godan verb (-u)

loiter on the way; dawdle; waste time on the road

Idiomatic expression meaning to stop or linger somewhere while going somewhere else, often implying unnecessary delay. Literally 'eat roadside grass'.

• 学がっ校こうの帰かえりに道みち草くさを食くって、母ははに叱しかられた。

  I dawdled on the way home from school and got scolded by my mother.

• 寄より道みちばかりして道みち草くさを食くうな。

  Don't waste time by stopping everywhere on the way.