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歯に衣を着せない歯に衣をきせない [sK] 歯に絹を着せない [sK]
はにきぬをきせない
1. [exp,adj-i] [id]
▶ not mince matters
▶ not mince one's words
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2399560 歯に衣着せぬ 1. outspoken; forthright; frank; direct

Conjugations


History:
3. A 2024-02-07 22:27:01  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -22,0 +23 @@
+<misc>&id;</misc>
2. A 2024-02-07 21:33:50  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
〈歯/は/ハ〉に〈衣/絹/きぬ/キヌ〉を〈着/き〉せない

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 歯に衣を着せない  │ 2,024 │ 73.8% │
│ 歯に衣をきせない  │   496 │ 18.1% │ - add, sK
│ 歯に絹を着せない  │   154 │  5.6% │ - add, sK
│ 歯にきぬを着せない │    47 │  1.7% │
│ はにきぬをきせない │    22 │  0.8% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Changing x-ref to 歯に衣着せぬ, which is the most common form of this expression.
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,8 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に衣をきせない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に絹を着せない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -13 +21 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2259790">歯に衣着せない</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2399560">歯に衣着せぬ</xref>
1. A 2018-08-11 12:27:05  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Aligning.
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>not mince one's words</gloss>

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