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jmdict 2854750 Active (id: 2188032)
目くじら立てる
【めくじらたてる】

[exp,v1] [id]
▶ to find fault (with trivial matters)
▶ to scold over minor things
▶ to get angry over trifles
▶ to raise one's eyebrows

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 2079460 目くじらを立てる 1. to find fault (with trivial matters); to scold over minor things; to get angry over trifles; to raise one's eyebrows

Conjugations

History:

2.	A 2022-05-28 22:00:52 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1.	A* 2022-05-28 03:49:30 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts 14,129 目くじらを立てる 5,331 目くじらを立てて 380 めくじらをたてる 15,495 目くじら立てる 10,378 目くじら立てて 412 めくじらたてる
	Comments:	More common than the standard dictionary form. Is it worth having entries like this?

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