門前の小僧
  もんぜんのこぞう
  Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)
  see: 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む・もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ
  idiomatic expression
  abbreviation
  you learn, without realising it, from what is around you
  a young monk outside the gate (can read sutras he has never studied)
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