Illustration: In a Japanese home's tatami room, a resident has been patching holes in a shoji screen. Numerous little repairs already cover the paper, and a cat has just pushed its head through another fresh tear.

いっそのこと

issonokoto

might as well

Example sentences

電車でんしゃが来こないなら、いっそのこと歩あるいて帰かえろう。
If the train isn’t coming, we might as well walk home.
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予定よていが合あわないなら、いっそのこと来週らいしゅうにしよう。
If our schedules don’t match, we might as well make it next week.
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もういっそのこと全部ぜんぶやり直なおしたい。
At this point, I’d rather start the whole thing over.
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