120Japanese idiom 四字熟語
一事が万事
いちじがばんじIchiji ga banji
“One thing tells all things.”
Word for wordOne matter, ten thousand matters.
The meaning
The way one does a small thing reveals the way one does everything. The detail is not a detail: it is a sample.
At the origin
A common expression, used in praise as in warning.
The characters
- 一事 ichijione thing
- が ga(subject)
- 万事
がParticleMarks the subject: the one who does, or what is.
In practice
Care for the small task at hand as a sample of yourself.