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控えめに言う； 控え目に言う； 控えめにいう [sK] ； ひかえ目に言う [sK]
【 ひかえめにいう 】
1. [exp,v5u]
▶ to speak with restraint
▶ to understate
▶ to downplay
▶ to put it mildly
▶ to say the least

Conjugations


History:
8. A 2023-07-31 04:31:31  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2023-07-31 02:44:52  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff: 
@@ -12,3 +12 @@
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>控目に言う</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -17,0 +16 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
6. A 2020-02-13 00:19:08  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
2 Tanaka sentences.
  Diff: 
@@ -15,0 +16,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>ひかえ目に言う</keb>
+</k_ele>
5. A 2018-08-29 20:08:20  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
gg5
  Diff: 
@@ -21,0 +22 @@
+<gloss>to speak with restraint</gloss>
@@ -24,0 +26 @@
+<gloss>to say the least</gloss>
4. A* 2018-08-18 03:26:59  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
GG5, etc. N-grams:
控えめに言う	934
控え目に言う	201
控目に言う	< 20
控えめにいう	108
  Diff: 
@@ -10,0 +11,3 @@
+<keb>控えめにいう</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
@@ -16,0 +20 @@
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
@@ -18,0 +23,2 @@
+<gloss>to downplay</gloss>
+<gloss>to put it mildly</gloss>
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