‘Tis but a flesh wound. Okay, twenty flesh wounds.

満身創痍
man.shin.sou.i

Literally: full – person – start/injury – injury

Alternately: One’s entire body is covered in wounds. (The specific image is having been cut many times by bladed weapons.) Hurt through and through. By extension, being in a psychic state of pain due to fierce criticism or social attack.

Notes: Some people apparently replace 満身 with homophone 慢心, “conceited pride,” which – although evocative in its own right – is considered an error.

ManShinManOfWounds

“I used to be an adventurer like you….” (Man of Wounds from the Wikimedia commons)

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I love the written word more than anything else I've had the chance to work with. I'm back in the States from Japan for grad school, but still studying Japanese with the hope of becoming a translator -- or writer, or even teacher -- as long as it's something language-related.
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