<entry eid="2215970" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2856828</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>ごめんで済むなら警察はいらない</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ごめんですむならけいさつはいらない</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<gloss>just saying sorry isn't enough</gloss>
<gloss>sorry won't cut it</gloss>
<gloss g_type="lit">if "sorry" were all it took (to settle things), we wouldn't need police</gloss>
</sense>
<history>
<audit time="2022-11-20 22:43:07" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Aseth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I suspect it translates to something like " "sorry" won't cut it", but I'm not sure honestly, so I'm suggesting the entry for this expression but I'll let you guys apply a sensible translation to it</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%94%E3%82%81%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E6%B8%88%E3%82%80%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E8%AD%A6%E5%AF%9F%E3%81%AF%E3%81%84%E3%82%89%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-21 21:45:19" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Yes, something like "just saying sorry isn't enough".
I'm not sure this is material for a dictionary entry. It's not very common (and many WWW hits are for a book of that name.) It's a bit like having an entry in an EJ dictionary for "take a cold shower".</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-29 07:42:33" stat="D" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'll drop this a day or so unless someone wants to support it.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-30 08:31:16" stat="D" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Might be worth keeping? I remember seeing this in a Crayon Shinchan manga ages ago and I use it myself (on occasion) ever since.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>ごめんで済めば 185 28.2%
ごめんですめば 126 19.2%
ごめんで済むなら 209 31.9%
ごめんですむなら 136 20.7%
(also seeing 済んだら examples on google)</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-12-01 05:08:54" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'll approve it pro tempore, then reopen for a bit. Should it be [col]? And would a literal translation help?</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<gloss>just saying sorry isn't enough</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-12-01 05:09:08" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-12-08 07:01:47" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Quiet.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-12-10 21:58:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>We should have a lit gloss. But I'm not sure this is needed as an entry.
There are many variations (済むなら/済んだら/済めば, いらん/いりません/etc., without and without the は). ごめんで済んだら警察はいらない appears to be the most common form on Twitter.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,0 +14 @@
+<gloss g_type="lit">if "sorry" were all it took (to settle things), we wouldn't need police</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-12-17 19:52:52" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Marginal, but I guess it's worth keeping.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</history>
</entry>
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