てまめ

手まめ
手忠実
diligent
industrious
skillful
dextrous

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てまめ【手まめ】

1 〔労をいとわぬこと〕 ＝まめ³ 1.

～な diligent; assiduous; industrious.

●手まめな人 a hard [an industrious, a diligent] worker.

・手まめに働く work hard [unstintingly, enthusiastically]

・手まめに繕(_つくろ)い物をする mend [patch up] 《clothes》 diligently.

2 〔器用〕 ～な skillful.

●何をさせても手まめな人 a person skilled at anything he [she] turns his [her] hand to; a jack-of-all-trades.

●手まめ足まめが商売繁盛の秘訣だ. Tireless labor [《英》 Hard graft] is the secret of business success.