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木で鼻をくくる木で鼻を括る
きではなをくくる
1. [exp,v5r] [id]
▶ to be blunt
▶ to be curt

Conjugations


History:
10. A 2023-12-15 20:36:53  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 木で鼻をくくっ │ 3,733 │ 82.6% │
│ 木で鼻を括っ  │   718 │ 15.9% │
│ 木で鼻をかん  │    42 │  0.9% │
│ 木で鼻をこくっ │    25 │  0.6% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Comments:
https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Editorial_policy#Merging_Entries/Two-out-of-three_Rule

These are similar expressions with different readings and cannot be merged.
  Diff:
@@ -9,3 +8,0 @@
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>木で鼻をこくる</keb>
9. A* 2023-12-15 20:22:16 
  Diff:
@@ -12,3 +11,0 @@
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>木で鼻をかむ</keb>
8. A* 2023-12-15 20:20:43 
  Refs:
shinkoku
https://kotowaza-dictionary.jp/k0571/

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬────┬───────╮
│ 木で鼻をこくる │ 39 │ 55.7% │
│ 木で鼻をかむ  │ 31 │ 44.3% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9,6 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>木で鼻をこくる</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>木で鼻をかむ</keb>
7. A 2018-11-28 00:37:48  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6. A* 2018-11-27 23:27:57  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr: "ひどく無愛想にもてなす。木で鼻をかむ。「―・ったような挨拶」"
  Comments:
I think we can shorten it to this.
  Diff:
@@ -17 +17 @@
-<gloss>to give a blunt answer</gloss>
+<gloss>to be blunt</gloss>
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