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Translation

• Context: someone gets a yojijukugo 四字熟語, "four character idiom," wrong.
• saishoku-kenbi
  才色兼備
  (For a woman) to have both wit and beauty.
  • Correct, marked by the circle: saishoku 才色, from saichi 才知, "wit," and iro 色, "color."
  • Incorrect, marked by the X: saishoku 才食, with shoku 食 meaning "to have meal," or "to eat," taberu 食べる.
  • In this episode, a character who often uses four character idioms wrong makes this mistake when complimenting a girl for eating a lot of food.