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うまい話には裏がある甘い話には裏がある [sK] 旨い話には裏がある [sK] 上手い話には裏がある [sK]
うまいはなしにはうらがある
1. [exp,v5r-i] [proverb]
▶ if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
▶ there's a flip side to every coin

Conjugations


History:
7. A 2023-10-27 22:22:58  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6. A* 2023-10-27 20:27:34  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
We have another entry for うまい話 that displays all the kanji forms.

〈うま/甘/旨/上手〉い〈話/はなし/ハナシ〉には〈裏/うら/ウラ〉が

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ うまい話には裏が    │ 5,195 │ 78.1% │
│ 上手い話には裏が    │   430 │  6.5% │ - [iK] to [sK]
│ 甘い話には裏が     │   371 │  5.6% │ - sK
│ 旨い話には裏が     │   283 │  4.3% │ - sK
│ うまい話にはウラが   │   280 │  4.2% │
│ 甘い話にはウラが    │    26 │  0.4% │
│ 上手い話にはウラが   │    26 │  0.4% │
│ 旨い話にはウラが    │    22 │  0.3% │
│ うまい話にはうらが   │    21 │  0.3% │
│ うまいはなしにはうらが │     0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +13 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -15 +17 @@
-<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
5. A 2023-02-04 22:09:56  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2023-02-04 21:50:27  Lorenzi
  Comments:
It seems there was an extraneous うら in one of the kanji components.
  Diff:
@@ -14 +14 @@
-<keb>上手い話には裏うらがある</keb>
+<keb>上手い話には裏がある</keb>
3. A 2022-08-01 04:18:34  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Add POS to proverbs
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -21,0 +22 @@
+<pos>&v5r-i;</pos>
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