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手をつける手を付ける手を着ける
てをつける
1. [exp,v1]
▶ to set one's hand to
▶ to start work on
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2394490 手を下す【てをくだす】 2. to start work (on); to commence
2. [exp,v1]
▶ to embezzle
▶ to use (money obtained in illegal fashion)
3. [exp,v1]
▶ to have sexual relations
▶ to have an affair

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2011-11-29 10:06:10  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5 has the sex/affair sense.
  Diff:
@@ -31,2 +31,2 @@
-<gloss>to approach with intention of eating (e.g. trying to pick fruit)</gloss>
-<gloss>to start at (grab at food)</gloss>
+<gloss>to have sexual relations</gloss>
+<gloss>to have an affair</gloss>
4. A* 2011-11-24 11:39:47  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Used in this sense (AFAICT) in 向田邦子「字のないはがき」 as:
「小さいのに手をつけるとしかる父も、この日は何も言わなかった。」
“Though (the pumpkins were) small, even father, who would scold when *we went to pick/eat them*, that day said not a word.”

新解さん gives:
「(三)食べようとして、それに向かう。」
…which seems the closest (sense of *eat*, rather than “steal” per se).
  Comments:
* Add “intend to eat” sense.
* Not sure about wording of gloss,
* but seems a distinct sense (if perhaps literary or old).

* It’s also apparently used as “have an affair with/carnal relations with (a woman of lower status); (sexual) slumming”, though I’ve not seen it in that sense.
  Diff:
@@ -28,0 +28,6 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<pos>&v1;</pos>
+<gloss>to approach with intention of eating (e.g. trying to pick fruit)</gloss>
+<gloss>to start at (grab at food)</gloss>
+</sense>
3. A 2011-11-22 01:41:47  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -20,1 +20,1 @@
-<gloss>to (start) work on</gloss>
+<gloss>to start work on</gloss>
2. A* 2011-11-19 10:51:54  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5
  Comments:
* Add closely parallel expression in English
* Add alt spelling 着ける (and suggest alt. entry be deleted).
  Diff:
@@ -10,0 +10,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>手を着ける</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -16,0 +19,1 @@
+<gloss>to set one's hand to</gloss>
1. A 2007-10-06 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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