<entry eid="2347073" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2536980</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>一筋縄でいかない</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>一筋縄で行かない</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ひとすじなわでいかない</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="2111220" xk="一筋縄では行かない">一筋縄では行かない</xref>
<gloss>not straightforward</gloss>
<gloss>not dealt with by ordinary means</gloss>
<gloss>very hard to manage</gloss>
</sense>
<history>
<audit time="2010-03-18 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-03-30 22:51:12" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>Hi, "straightforward" should be one word, I feel. Also for 一筋縄では行かない.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-03-31 04:26:27" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>not straight forward</gloss>
+<gloss>not straightforward</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-12-20 23:58:08" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Aseth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>from GG5:
►一筋縄ではいかない be very hard to ┏manage [deal with]
Example sentence from Final Fantasy 14:
https://i.imgur.com/SomWceE.png</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<gloss>very hard to manage</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-12-22 03:02:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +15,0 @@
-<gloss>very hard to manage</gloss>
@@ -18,0 +18 @@
+<gloss>very hard to manage</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-26 17:28:33" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Sombrero1</upd_name>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 一筋縄でいかない │ 7.504 │ 84.2% │
│ 一筋縄で行かない │ 1.290 │ 14.5% │
│ ひとすじなわでいかない │ 122 │ 1.4% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-26 18:03:54" stat="A">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬─────╮
│ 一筋縄でいかなく │ 173 │
│ 一筋縄で行かなく │ 38 │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴─────╯</upd_refs>
</audit>
</history>
</entry>
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