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歯に衣着せない歯に絹着せない [sK] 歯に衣きせない [sK]
はにきぬきせない
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:
5. A 2024-02-07 22:27:08  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -22,0 +23 @@
+<misc>&id;</misc>
4. A 2024-02-07 21:35:42  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
〈歯/は/ハ〉に〈衣/絹/きぬ/キヌ〉〈着/き〉せない

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 歯に衣着せない  │ 2,609 │ 88.3% │
│ 歯に絹着せない  │   200 │  6.8% │ - add, sK
│ 歯に衣きせない  │   106 │  3.6% │ - add, sK
│ 歯にきぬ着せない │    39 │  1.3% │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Adding 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>歯に絹着せない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>歯に衣きせない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -12,0 +21 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2399560">歯に衣着せぬ</xref>
3. A 2018-08-11 01:02:42  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2018-08-10 16:16:57  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
@@ -12,0 +14 @@
+<gloss>not mince one's words</gloss>
1. A 2008-02-28 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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