JLPT N1Idioms
糸を引く
- Meaning
- 表に出ずに陰で人を操って事を進める
- Explanation
- 「糸を引く」 means to manipulate people behind the scenes without appearing in the open, moving things as one wishes. It derives from the image of working a puppet with strings, used like 「黒幕が裏で糸を引く」. c3 「a relationship continues without being severed」 is also expressed with 「糸を引く」, but this question means manipulation from the shadows; the core is the existence of an agent who moves people.
- Examples
- 黒幕が裏で糸を引く
Original Japanese explanation
「糸を引く」は表に出ず陰で人を操り、思いどおりに事を動かすこと。操り人形を糸で操る様子に由来し、「黒幕が裏で糸を引く」のように使う。c3「縁が切れずに続く」も「糸を引く」と言うが本問は陰の操作の意で、人を動かす主体の存在が核心である。
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