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尻尾を巻く； しっぽを巻く； シッポを巻く [sK] ； 尻尾をまく [sK]
【 しっぽをまく 】
1. [exp,v5k] [id]
▶ to tuck one's tail between one's legs
▶ to admit defeat
▶ to turn tail (and run)

Conjugations


History:
7. A 2023-04-20 11:26:22  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6. A* 2023-04-20 05:48:00  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
〈尻尾／しっぽ／シッポ〉を〈巻／ま〉い

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 尻尾を巻い　 │ 9,804 │ 66.0% │
│ しっぽを巻い │ 2,487 │ 16.7% │
│ シッポを巻い │ 1,020 │  6.9% │ - add, sK
│ 尻尾をまい　 │   926 │  6.2% │ - add, sK
│ しっぽをまい │   444 │  3.0% │
│ シッポをまい │   170 │  1.1% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff: 
@@ -8,0 +9,8 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>シッポを巻く</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>尻尾をまく</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
5. A* 2023-04-20 05:00:54  Opencooper
  Refs: 
K/M n-grams:

尻尾を巻く　 33 76.7%
しっぽを巻く 10 23.3%
  Diff: 
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>しっぽを巻く</keb>
4. A 2018-06-15 12:30:04  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
I think one sense is enough.
  Diff: 
@@ -13,0 +14 @@
+<gloss>to tuck one's tail between one's legs</gloss>
@@ -17,5 +17,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&exp;</pos>
-<pos>&v5k;</pos>
-<gloss>to tuck one's tail between one's legs (of a dog, etc.)</gloss>
-</sense>
3. A* 2018-06-15 02:53:09  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
Better?
  Diff: 
@@ -13 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>(a person) to admit defeat</gloss>
+<misc>&id;</misc>
+<gloss>to admit defeat</gloss>
@@ -19 +20 @@
-<gloss>(a dog) to tuck one's tail between one's legs</gloss>
+<gloss>to tuck one's tail between one's legs (of a dog, etc.)</gloss>
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