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<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2077110</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>何かというと</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>何かと言うと</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>なにかと言うと</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>なにかというと</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<gloss>on the least pretext</gloss>
<gloss>at every opportunity</gloss>
<gloss>whenever there is a chance</gloss>
<gloss>at the drop of a hat</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2006-02-07 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2015-07-03 08:39:31" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>luce</upd_name>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;何かというと&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2015-07-06 02:47:38" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-09 23:23:05" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daijr, meikyo
Adding some glosses from our entry for 何かにつけて

https://jisho.org/forum/636bb09cd5dda74115000000-is-the-translation-correct
I don't think "at the drop of a hat" has the exact same nuance, but I think it could work in some contexts. GG5 has it.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 何かと言うと　 │  29,123 │ 17.9% │
│ 何かというと　 │ 113,041 │ 69.3% │ 🡠 moving up
│ なにかと言うと │   2,190 │  1.3% │ 🡠 adding
│ なにかというと │  18,672 │ 11.5% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;何かというと&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -8 +11,2 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;何かというと&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;なにかと言うと&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -15,0 +20,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;at every opportunity&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;whenever there is a chance&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-10 00:28:33" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>