Word Meaning 蜥蜴の尻尾切り

とかげのしっぽぎり tokage no shippogiri

蜥蜴の尻尾切り is read as とかげのしっぽぎり (tokage no shippogiri) and means evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them.

Meaning

English

  1. evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them
  2. a skink lizard's shedding of its tail

Reading

Kana

とかげのしっぽぎり

Romaji

tokage no shippogiri

Writing Variants

  • とかげの尻尾切り とかげのしっぽきり tokagenoshippokiri
  • トカゲの尻尾切り とかげのしっぽきり tokagenoshippokiri
  • とかげの尻尾切り とかげのしっぽぎり tokagenoshippogiri
  • トカゲの尻尾切り とかげのしっぽぎり tokagenoshippogiri
  • 蜥蜴の尻尾切り とかげのしっぽきり tokage no shippokiri

Stroke Sequence

7 Characters • 47 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

Kanken 1級 Proverb Rank 155007 Priority Y

Related Vocabulary

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棘尾大蜥蜴

とげおおおとかげ

ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus, species of monitor lizard found throughout the arid northern regions of Australia)

尻棘大蜥蜴

しりとげおおとかげ

black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis, small species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia)

蜥蜴目

とかげもく

Squamata (order of scaled reptiles, sometimes esp. the Sauria or Lacertilia)

蜥蜴座

とかげざ

Lacerta (constellation)

蜥蜴

とかげ

lizard

尻尾

しっぽ

tail (animal)

大蜥蜴

おおとかげ

monitor lizard

コモド大蜥蜴

こもどおおとかげ

Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

レース大蜥蜴

れーすおおとかげ

lace monitor (Varanus varius, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in eastern Australia)

サバンナ大蜥蜴

さばんなおおとかげ

savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa)

鰐蜥蜴鱚目

わにとかげぎすもく

Stomiiformes (order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes)

水大蜥蜴

みずおおとかげ

water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east)