1ミリ
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一ミリ |
Etymology
[edit]From 1 (ichi, “one”) + ミリ (miri), clipping of ミリメートル (“millimeter”). Attested from the 2010s.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (informal, chiefly in the negative) the slightest amount (in reference to one's knowledge, thought, etc.)
- 1ミリも思いつかない
- ichi-miri mo omoitsukanai
- never would have thought of even the slightest amount of it
- 2021 May 19, “1.5 oku en sōkin no kanyo o hitei, Nikai, Amari-shi [Nikai, Amari deny involvement in 150 million yen remittance]”, in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, page 38:
- [二階俊博は]河井案里元参院議員陣営に対する党本部からの1億5千万円の送金に関し、関与を重ねて否定した。当時、選対委員長だった甘利明税制調査会長も国会内で記者団に「1ミリも関与しておらず、全く承知していない」と強調した。
- [Nikai Toshihiro wa] Kawai Anri moto San'in gīn jinnei ni taisuru tō honbu kara no ichioku gosenman en no sōkin ni kanshi, kan'yo o kasanete hitei shita. Tōji, sentai īnchō datta Amari Akira zeisei chōsa kaichō mo Kokkai nai de kishadan ni “ichi-miri mo kan'yo shiteorazu, mattaku shōchi shiteinai” to kyōchō shita.
- [Toshihiro Nikai] repeatedly denied any involvement in the remittance of 150 million yen from the party headquarters to former Upper House member Anri Kawai. Akira Amari, then chairman of the election campaign committee and chairman of the tax system research committee, also stressed to reporters in the Diet that he was “without one millimeter of participation, completely unaware.”
- [二階俊博は]河井案里元参院議員陣営に対する党本部からの1億5千万円の送金に関し、関与を重ねて否定した。当時、選対委員長だった甘利明税制調査会長も国会内で記者団に「1ミリも関与しておらず、全く承知していない」と強調した。
- 1ミリも思いつかない
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 一, ミリ.
Derived terms
[edit]- 1ミリも知らない (ichi-miri mo shiranai, “completely ignorant”)