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I've come across this in the following sentence:

> 油断だらけのこの背中

油断 means "reckless" or "negligence" and だらけ means "full of" or "riddle with".
While I can decipher(?) the meaning of the sentence as a whole to mean "This
back full of openings" or something like but I can't fathom the meaning of the
combination 油断だらけ.

Is it simply "Riddled with negligence"? Can I use だらけ with other words like 穴
to say that something is riddle with holes or 虫刺されだらけ to say that something is
riddle with bites from insects?

Thanks
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Understanding the usage of だらけ
As far as the literal translation goes, yes, it is simply "this back riddled
with negligence". Grammatically, -だらけ is a suffix that forms a no-adjective.
Like "riddled with ～", "～だらけ" is used with many undesirable (and usually
countable) things, like so:

  * 欠点だらけの人
  * 傷だらけの顔
  * この文章は漢字の間違いだらけだ。
  * 穴だらけのセキュリティー

A 背中 doesn't "have" 油断, and 油断 is not really countable, so 油断だらけの背中 sounds
like a little poetic/literary expression to me.

On the other hand, these are incorrect:

  * ❌水だらけのプール (say 水でいっぱいのプール instead)
  * ❌笑顔だらけの顔 (say 笑顔でいっぱいの顔 instead)
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