jmdict 2860408 Active (id#2293664)
万策尽きる万策つきる [sK]
ばんさくつきる
  1. [exp,v1]
    • to exhaust all possible means
    • to come to the end of one's resources
    • to reach the end of one's tether
    • to be at one's wits' end
    • to play one's last card
History:
    • A 2024-03-07 22:52:03 Robin Scott (id#2293664)
    • Comments
      I don't think [id] is needed here. It's pretty literal.
    • Diff
      @@ -17 +16,0 @@
      -<misc>&id;</misc>
    • A 2024-03-07 22:19:02 Robin Scott (id#2293661)
    • Refs
      gg5, prog
    • Diff
      @@ -14,0 +15 @@
      +<pos>&exp;</pos>
      @@ -16 +16,0 @@
      -<pos>&vi;</pos>
      @@ -17,0 +18,3 @@
      +<gloss>to exhaust all possible means</gloss>
      +<gloss>to come to the end of one's resources</gloss>
      +<gloss>to reach the end of one's tether</gloss>
      @@ -19,2 +21,0 @@
      -<gloss>to come at the end of one's resources</gloss>
      -<gloss>to be in despair</gloss>
    • A 2024-03-06 11:26:05 Jim Breen (id#2293559)
    • Refs
      Eijiro
    • Diff
      @@ -20,0 +21 @@
      +<gloss>to play one's last card</gloss>
    • A* 2024-03-06 11:11:52 penname01 (id#2293553)
    • Refs
      pretty much all kokugos/gg5 use 万策尽きる or a variant as examples for 万策
      
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ 万策尽きた │ 6,226 │ 90.4% │
      │ 万策つきた │   662 │  9.6% │
      ╰─ーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
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