いっぽんやり

一本槍
one's sole talent
a guiding principle

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いっぽんやり【一本槍】

●これからは効率主義一本やりでやっていくことはできないだろう. It probably won't be possible from now on to insist on efficiency as the overriding principle.

・彼は強気一本やりで次々に事業を拡大してきた. He has expanded one business after another with persistence and aggressiveness.

・彼は一生を正直一本やりで通した. The one guiding principle he followed throughout his whole life was honesty.

●思えば大学では勉強一本やりの学生生活だった. Come to think of it, all I did in university was study.

・増税一本やりの政府のやり方に国民はうんざりしている. The citizens of the nation are fed up with the government's single-minded policy of increasing taxes.

●政府は反政府ゲリラに対する強硬方針一本やりを改め, 対話の道を探ろうとしている. The administration has altered its unbending hard line toward the anti-government guerrillas and is seeking a path toward dialogue.

●彼は速球一本やりだ. He is a fastball pitcher from start to finish.