- 尻窄み
- しりすぼみ【尻窄み】¶ → 尻窄みに終る* * *しりすぼみ【尻窄み】an anticlimax; a tame ending.
●尻すぼみになる narrow toward the end; taper (off); 〔竜頭蛇尾になる〕 end (up) in an anticlimax; 《口》 peter out; fizzle out (in the end)
・彼の事業は最初は景気がよかったが, 結局尻すぼみに終わった. His enterprise promised fair at first, but petered out in the end.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.