英和和英

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名詞

A complaint; a scolding; a lecture; fault-finding; grumbling

用例

• 小言を言う
  （叱るのなら）to give one a scolding―give one a rating―give me a piece of one's mind―rend one a lecture―blow one up―give it one―nag at one―din in one's ears―（とがめだてするのなら）―find fault with anything―quarrel with anything―（愚痴をこぼすのなら）―grumble at anything―complain of anything

• お母さんが女中どもに小言を言っている
  Mamma is blowing up the servants.
• うんと小言を言ってやった
  I gave him a sound rating.
• 今度来たなら一つ小言を言ってやろう
  The next time he comes, I will give him a bit of my mind.
• 今度こんなことを仕やがったら小言を言ってやる
  If he repears it, I'll give it him.
• 親父の長いお小言を聞いた
  My father read me a long lecture.
• 継母は僕が何をしてもなんとかかとか小言を言った、箸の上げ下ろしにも小言を言うのであった
  My stepmother would find fault with everything I did.
• 下手な職人は道具に小言を言う
  A bad workman will quarrel with his tool.
• 上手な職人は道具に小言を言わぬ（能書筆を嫌わず）
  “A cunning workman does not quarrel with his tool.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 彼は不景気だとかなんだとか始終小言を言っている
  He is always grumbling at the badness of the times and what not.
• 朝から晩まで小言を言いづめだ
  He is peevish―querulous.
• 女房は亭主に意気地が無いとかなんとかかとか小言を言いづめだ
  She keeps nagging at him―dinning in his ears―as to what a good-for-nothing he is, and what not.
• 亭主は気の好い男で女房に小言なら一つ言ったことが無い
  He is so good-natured that he never spoke severely to her.
• 小言を食う
  to get a scolding―catch it
• 早く帰らないと小言を食うぞ
  If you do not go home quickly, you will catch it.
• 将来はお小言を頂戴するようなことは致しません
  You shall have no cause for complaint in future.