美人薄命

びじんはくめい

beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young

Meanings

Expression
beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die youngFour-character idiom

Example sentences

美人薄命びじんはくめいとはいうけれど。ということは、内うちのかみさんは長生ながいきだな。

Beautiful women die young - or so the saying goes. If so then my wife is going to live a long life.