差し金

さしがね【差し金】

¶ → 彼の差し金で

¶だれの～でこんなことをしたのか

Who egged you to do such a thing?

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I

さしがね【差し金】

1 〔曲尺(_{かねじゃく})〕 a carpenter's square.

2 〔そそのかし〕 instigation; incitement; prompting; 〔入れ知恵〕 putting sb up to sth; giving sb an idea.

●…の差し金で at sb's instigation [prompting]; acting on sb's suggestion.

●最近の彼の行動はきっとボスの差し金だ. His recent actions must have been prompted by the boss.

・きさま, いったい, だれの差し金で来たのだ. Listen, you; whose idea was it that you come here?

・だれの差し金でもない. 俺ひとりの考えでやったことだ. I wasn't acting on suggestions from anyone. I thought it all up myself.

II

さしきん【差し金】

1 〔内金〕 money paid on account. [＝うちきん]

2 〔不足を補う金〕 money paid to cover a deficit.