百発百中
hya-.ppatsu.hyaku.chuu
Literally: hundred – emit – hundred – middle
Alternately: Hitting the center of the target with every arrow or bullet fired. A 100% hit rate. Metaphorically, a person with plans or, especially, predictions that never fail.
Notes: This compound comes to us from the Zhan Guo Ce (『戦国策』, Sengokusaku, which we’ve seen before). The story goes that Yang You Ji (養由基, Japanese You Yuuki), a legendary archer from the state of Chu, walked a hundred paces from a willow tree and loosed a hundred arrows from his bow, striking a different leaf on the tree with each one.
A book about how to become infallible by proactively causing your predictions to come true. A positive spin on the Texas sharpshooter fallacy, perhaps.
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