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読み方 きれめ

名詞

1

（＝途切れ目）a break; an interruption; a gap; an interval; a rift

用例

• 雲の切れ目
  a rift in the clouds
  a break in the clouds

• 雲の切れ目から日光が射す
  The sun breaks through the clouds.
• 話しの切れ目
  a break in the conversation
• 切れ目をつなぐ
  to stop a gap

2

（＝終るところ）a place to leave off; an end

用例

• ここらがちょうど切れ目が好い
  This is a good place to leave off.

• 金の切れ目が縁の切れ目
  The end of money is the end of love
  “When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.”【イディオム・格言的】