Talk:うまのほね

Seems to be originally coming from this story from Zhanguoce, Yance. 燕人立太子平為君. 是為昭王. 弔死問生、卑辞厚幣、以招賢者. 問郭隗曰、「斉因孤之国乱、而襲破燕. 孤極知燕小不足以報. 誠得賢士与共国以雪先王之恥、孤之願也. 先生視可者. 得身事之. 」 隗曰、「古之君有以千金使涓人求千里馬者. 買死馬骨五百金而返. 君怒. 涓人曰、『死馬且買之. 況生者乎馬今至矣. 』不期年、千里馬至者三. 今王必欲致士、先従隗始. 況賢於隗者、豈遠千里哉. 」 於是昭王為隗改築宮、師事之. 於是士争趨燕.

Then the Japanese or originally Chinese? interpreted the story and come up with the phrase, 「一に鶏肋、二に馬骨」, thus. 馬の骨 https://www.ntv.co.jp/dash/contents/michiko/dictionary/index/new/index.html

https://ja.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E7%AD%89%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E5%9B%BD%E8%AA%9E%E7%B7%8F%E5%90%88/%E6%BC%A2%E6%96%87/%E5%85%88%E5%BE%93%E9%9A%97%E5%A7%8B

https://blog.xuite.net/eternalwind/wretch/483061476-%E3%80%90%E6%97%A5%E6%96%87%E3%80%91%E3%80%8C%E9%A6%AC%E3%81%AE%E9%AA%A8%E3%80%8D%E6%98%AF%E4%BB%80%E9%BA%BC%E6%84%8F%E6%80%9D%EF%BC%9FShen233 (talk) 20:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)