はなよりだんご

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はなよりだんご – see the following entry.

【花より団子】 [proverb] (idiomatic): "dango instead of flowers", substance over form → indicating a preference for the practical over the purely aesthetic, preferring dango (which are tasty and nutritious) rather than flowers (which are merely decorative)

(This term, はなよりだんご, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)