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ものをいう
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan, う)
1. to speak (of something)
2. to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
Alt. forms
ものを言いう
44%
物ものを言いう
36%
ものをいう
19%
Pitch accent
も
の
をいう
Top 28200
Conjugations...Used in: 416
Composed of
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue
money talks
to communicate with a look; (lit.) to talk with one's eyes
Examples (4 in total)
Don't say anything without thinking.
He did not speak at all.
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