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Author Message   Naka Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 01:52 am:    Hi! Can you help, please? A friend of mine asked me to translate a passage from English into Japanase and there is a proverb in it - "curiousity killed the cat". Unfortunately, i don't know Japanese equivalent of this saying. And moreover, there is a play on words in this passage conserning cats. So can you please give an equivalent of the proverb and - if any - any sayings in Japanese dealing with cat's curiosity, so that it will be possible to keep that pun in translated variant? Thanks a lot for your help!   Anonymous Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:18 pm:    "Curiosity killed the cat" is usually translated as: 好奇心は身を誤る. However, there appears to be a video game with Japanese title that can be translated into "Can Curiosity Kill the Cat?" So, 好奇心は猫を殺すmay be OK, although it is not a proverb but acceptable.   Naka Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 03:53 am:    Thanks a lot ).