尻窄み

尻窄み
しりすぼみ【尻窄み】
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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.

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