Illustration: At a community gym basketball match, an exhausted team gathers around its coach while confident opponents wait on the court. The coach turns toward a quiet substitute who has remained at the far end of the bench.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

切きり札ふだ

kirifuda

ace up one’s sleeve

Example sentences

  1. あの会社かいしゃの社長しゃちょうは切きり札ふだを隠かくし持もっています。

    The president of that company has an ace up her sleeve.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 切きり札ふだは最後さいごまで見みせるな。見みせるなら、さらに奥おくの手てを持もて。

    Keep that ace up your sleeve. If you’re going to show it, have another even further up.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 「背せが伸のびて入はいらないわよね」「そう、断だんじて太ふとったわけではない!」「成長せいちょうしたという便利べんりな言葉ことばは我々われわれの切きり札ふだ」

    "We’ve got taller so they don’t fit." "Right, it’s certainly not that we’ve got fat!" "The useful phrase 'grown up' is our trump card."

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 切札

  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる
  • 札tag; paper moneyOnサツKunふだ

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