Illustration: At a neighborhood community center counter, a resident seeks permission to hold a small puppet performance. The staff member has pushed the resident’s puppet-stage model back across the counter and raises a palm in refusal, with the chair already turned toward other work.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

食くい下さがる

kuisagaru

to persist, to refuse to back down

Example sentences

  1. しかし、以下いかのように喰くいさがったそうである。

    It is said that Tadanori made a die-hard effort to protest as follows:

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 尾崎おざきは9月がつ6日かに参内さんだいして明治天皇めいじてんのうに謝罪しゃざいし、更さらに辞職じしょくをするなら一蓮托生いちれんたくしょうと大隈重信首相おおくましげのぶしゅしょうに食くいさがった。

    OZAKI visited the Imperial Palace on September 6 to apologize to the Emperor Meiji, and asked Prime Minister Shigenobu OKUMA persistently to resign together.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 上司じょうしに断ことわられても、彼かれは提案ていあんを通とおそうと食くい下さがった。

    Even after his boss turned him down, he kept pushing for his proposal.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 食下

  • 食eat; foodOnショク・ジキKunくう・くらう・たべる
  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・さげる

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