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jmdict 2860342 Deleted (id: 2293096)
性根を叩き直す
しょうねをたたきなおす
1. [v5s,exp]
▶ to straighten someone out

Conjugations


History:
4. D 2024-03-01 22:28:36  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
From a fork:

A* 2024-03-01 22:03:44  Jim Breen
Refs:
  性根を叩き直す	894
Comments:
  For 叩き直す GG5 has a second sense of "correct by discipline". I have proposed it as an amendment. I'm not sure this entry is needed as the meaning is rather obvious.
3. D* 2024-03-01 21:52:51  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Sankoku gives 根性(こんじょう) as a collocation rather than 性根 in its entry for 叩き直す.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────╮
│ 根性を叩き直す │ 864 │
│ 性根を叩き直す │ 894 │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────╯
  Comments:
I think this is too compositional to be an entry. Maybe improvements could be made to our 叩き直す entry instead.
2. A* 2024-03-01 18:47:14  Marcus Aseth <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
maybe "to discipline someone" ?  I'm not sure how to best phrase it...
1. A* 2024-03-01 18:45:34  Marcus Aseth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://thesaurus.weblio.jp/content/性根を叩き直す
  Comments:
from the link above: "ゆがんだ性格などを矯正すること"
kenkyuusha has an example sentence for this under 性根 :   性根を(たたき)直す straighten 《a child》 out

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