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Can anyone explain what does this idiom means ? I read the English translation
and googled it but I still don’t know what it really means and what does
flower refer to .

**見ぬが花**

**“Not seeing is a flower.”**

Thank you guys.
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Not seeing is a flower?
This 花 has a figurative meaning, "the best thing". This use of 花 is in the
same vein as the English idiom "Silence is _golden_ ".

The very literal translation would be "Not seeing is a flower", but it roughly
means "It's best when it's unseen". It's typically used to point out that
something may not be that good in reality, or that someone is having an
illusion against something.
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