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[exp,v5s]
▶ to evade (questions) ▶ to reply evasively ▶ to beat around the bush ▶ to throw up a smoke screen |
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| 7. | A 2022-10-15 01:28:34 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| Comments: | I've raised this as an issue on Github. |
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| 6. | A* 2022-10-13 00:32:17 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | お茶を濁す 46825 95.0% 茶を濁す 2443 5.0% |
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| Comments: | I think 1 sense is fine. I wonder if we can drop the 茶を濁す entry altogether, and just have it as an sK form here? Most of the JEs only have お茶を濁す. |
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| 5. | A* 2022-10-12 22:36:29 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
| Comments: | Align with 茶を濁す? Not sure this needs 4 senses |
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| Diff: | @@ -5,0 +6,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>お茶をにごす</keb> @@ -13,18 +16,4 @@ -<gloss>to be evasive</gloss> -<gloss>to give an evasive answer</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&exp;</pos> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<gloss>to speak ambiguously</gloss> -<gloss>to prevaricate</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&exp;</pos> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<gloss>to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&exp;</pos> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<gloss>to make do with</gloss> +<gloss>to evade (questions)</gloss> +<gloss>to reply evasively</gloss> +<gloss>to beat around the bush</gloss> +<gloss>to throw up a smoke screen</gloss> |
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| 4. | A 2011-11-07 21:30:13 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 3. | A* 2011-11-07 10:42:15 Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | GG5 |
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| Comments: | Re-order meanings to front “speak evasively”, which seems to be main sense. (I’m told this is a somewhat old-fashioned expression; found in same article.) |
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| Diff: | @@ -13,6 +13,2 @@ -<gloss>to make do with</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&exp;</pos> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<gloss>to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation</gloss> +<gloss>to be evasive</gloss> +<gloss>to give an evasive answer</gloss> @@ -29,2 +25,6 @@ -<gloss>to be evasive</gloss> -<gloss>to give an evasive answer</gloss> +<gloss>to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&exp;</pos> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<gloss>to make do with</gloss> |
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