Kotowaza: Muddy the Tracks of a Standing Chicken?

[mbarker]

Hum -- someone is having trouble with a computer that someone else used before, and didn't clean up. In talking about the problem, they fell back on this saying:

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[mbarker]

立つ鳥跡を濁さず　--にこさず

[dsgood]

Correction: "I've been speaking prose all my life...."

[mbarker]

Ah, is that what I meant? :-)