<entry id="2273696" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2759980</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>控えめに言う</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>控え目に言う</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>控えめにいう</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>ひかえ目に言う</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ひかえめにいう</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&v5u;</pos>
<gloss>to speak with restraint</gloss>
<gloss>to understate</gloss>
<gloss>to downplay</gloss>
<gloss>to put it mildly</gloss>
<gloss>to say the least</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-12-13 03:54:30" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>winnie</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>In a google search, I got 6.9 million hits for 控えめに言う, 1.4 million hits for 控え目に言う, and only 8 hits for 控目に言う, so that last version is clearly rare, but it exists :-)</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>http://ja.w3dictionary.org/index.php?q=understate  
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/understate  
http://www.websaru.info/understate.html</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-12-13 05:04:19" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I think this is just a+b and as such isn't necessary to 
include.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>bing:
"控えめに言う" 7,650
__
"控えめにやる"  7,810
"控えめに飲む"  6,470
"控えめにする"  65,900
"控えめに考える"  213</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-12-13 22:07:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Useful for reverse searches, though.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-08-18 03:26:59" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>GG5, etc. N-grams:
控えめに言う	934
控え目に言う	201
控目に言う	&lt; 20
控えめにいう	108</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10,0 +11,3 @@
+&lt;keb&gt;控えめにいう&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
@@ -16,0 +20 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;exp;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -18,0 +23,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;to downplay&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to put it mildly&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-08-29 20:08:20" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>gg5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -21,0 +22 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;to speak with restraint&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -24,0 +26 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;to say the least&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-02-13 00:19:08" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>2 Tanaka sentences.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -15,0 +16,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;ひかえ目に言う&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-07-31 02:44:52" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>〈控（え）／ひかえ〉〈目／め〉に〈言／い〉っ

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 控えめに言っ　 │ 7,716 │ 75.5% │
│ 控え目に言っ　 │ 1,190 │ 11.6% │
│ 控えめにいっ　 │   895 │  8.8% │ - sK
│ ひかえめに言っ │   161 │  1.6% │
│ 控え目にいっ　 │   141 │  1.4% │
│ ひかえ目に言っ │    35 │  0.3% │ - sK
│ 控目に言っ　　 │     0 │  0.0% │ - drop
│ ひかえめにいっ │    78 │  0.8% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,3 +12 @@
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;控目に言う&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -17,0 +16 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-07-31 04:31:31" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>