当てつける

当てつける
あてつける【当てつける】
¶その冗談は我々に当てつけたものだ
The joke's on us.
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あてつける【当てつける】
show [do] sth to spite sb. [=あてこする]

●彼は僕に当てつけて英字新聞を読んでいたのだ. He was pointedly [was making a show of] reading an English-language newspaper to get at me.

・父は私に当てつけて弟ばかりほめていた. My father took it out on me by continually praising my brother.

・新婚の二人に当てつけられた. I found the newlyweds' behavior quite embarrassing.


Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.

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