<entry id="2229682" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2567580</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>つじつまを合わせる</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>辻褄を合わせる</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>つじつまをあわせる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<gloss>to make one's story to seem coherent</gloss>
<gloss>to adjust one's story to fit the situation</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2010-08-04 12:42:42" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>paul</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Paul Blay</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>デジタル大辞泉
http://www.sanabo.com/kotowaza/arc/2003/04/post_629.html</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2010-08-10 12:16:58" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2016-11-30 19:27:53" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>johan</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Johan Råde</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>G n-grams:
つじつまを合わせる	5752
辻褄を合わせる	3574
つじつまをあわせる	577</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;つじつまを合わせる&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2016-11-30 22:02:01" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-04-28 15:41:48" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'm breaking the reciprocal xref.  This term is actually somewhat common, the other term is relatively rare. (google books returns a fair number of results though, so it's not nonexistent).</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>つじつまを合わせる	5752	44.5%
辻褄を合わせる	3574	27.7%
ばつを合わせる	20	0.2%

Mostly likely place to find the xref is in reference materials that list it as a synonym of this term, like this one:
https://kotowaza-dictionary.jp/k0912/

Google: bunch of hits for this term:
"つじつまを合わせる" site:twitter.com
Google: no hits for xref:
"ばつを合わせる" site:twitter.com</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -16 +15,0 @@
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="2126250"&gt;ばつを合わせる&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-04-29 22:06:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>