- きりこうじょう
- [切り口上] ¶→切り口上で¶→切り口上で話す切り口上
stiff formality
set terms* * *きりこうじょう【切り口上】¶ → 切り口上で¶ → 切り口上で話す* * *きりこうじょう【切り口上】a manner of speaking in which each word is carefully enunciated; stiff and formal language; 《his usual》 very stiff remarks; an emotionless [a formal] way of speaking.●切り口上で述べる speak in a stiff [a formal, an unemotional, a dry-as-dust] manner; use formal language; speak with studied formality
・切り口上で話をする speak in a stiff and formal way; tell a story as if one were teaching a class.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.