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プロポーズしないうちから
けっこんしき
結婚式
けいかく
計画
する
ほんまつてんとう
本末転倒

Planning the wedding before proposing is putting the cart before the horse.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
3
(marriage) proposal
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1. to do  (often written with kana only)
2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)  (often written with kana only)
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0 1
1. inside; within
2. while  (see also: ないうちに; also 裡; often written with kana only)
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3
noun
marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
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0
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
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1
failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards  (yojijukugo)
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Kanji
ケツ   むす    ゆわえる to bind   ゆ to braid   
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キツ   キチ    good luck   
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シ   samurai
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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シ   いと thread   
コン    marriage   
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ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
コン   くら dark   
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シ    family; Mr / Mrs   うじ family name   
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
シキ    ceremony, method, style   
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コウ   ク    work; construction; craft   
shoot
ケイ   はからう to arrange   はか to measure, compute   
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ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
stick   
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   い to say   
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ガ   カク   draw
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ユ   ユウ   ユイ   よし reason   
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open box
ホン   book   もと origin   
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モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
マツ   バツ   すえ end   
テン   ころがる to roll (intr.)   ころがす to roll (tr.)   ころげる to roll about   ころ to fall over   
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ウン    say   
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ニ   ふた    ふた two   
ム   private
シャ   くるま car   
トウ   たおれる to fall over   たお to knock down   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
トウ    arrive   
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シ   いた to reach, to lead to   
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ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
トウ   かたな sword   
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