手を抜く – Vocabulary details

手てを抜ぬく

Expression

Verb (5-dan, く)

Idiomatic

1. to cut corners; to be shoddy; to slack off; to go easy (on an opponent); to hold back (in a competition, fight, etc.)

やっぱり手てを抜ぬいていたか。So you were cutting corners after all.

2. to play a tenuki; to tenuki

hand

pull out

hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker

to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to do thoroughly; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)

やっぱり手てを抜ぬいていたか。

So you were cutting corners after all.

手てを抜ぬいちゃいけませんよね。

We mustn't cut corners, right?

誰だれしも楽らくをしたいし、手てを抜ぬきたくなる。

Everyone wants to take it easy, and everyone is tempted to cut corners.

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