English Dictionary

nudge nudge wink wink

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnʌdʒ nʌdʒ ˌwɪŋk wɪŋk/

間投詞

未分類 限定用法 ユーモラス文体 慣用表現

(idiomatic, humorous, also attributive) A phrase used to hint that the speaker is euphemistically referring to something else.

日本語の意味

ほのめかし、暗に何かを示唆するための言い回し / 遠回しに、婉曲的に別の事柄を指す表現

When I called it 'the special sauce,' I gave her a nudge nudge wink wink to imply we were talking about something more scandalous.

「特製ソース」と呼ぶと、私は彼女に肘でそっとつつきながらウインクして、よりスキャンダラスなことをほのめかした。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, humorous, also attributive) A phrase used to hint that the speaker is euphemistically referring to something else.

The Opposition is so insensitive to the South Island that it gets a North Island member to move a private member's Bill about a South Island issue. […] The Bill represents a broken half-promise—nudge, nudge, wink, wink—by the Leader of the Opposition in Timaru only a short time ago. […] So down [to the South Island] he goes—nudge, nudge, wink, wink. They let him out of the closet for a while to go down to talk to some South Islanders and he told them they would get 25 percent and 10 percent. Now there is a Bill from a North Island Opposition member, the member for New Plymouth—a Bill that backs off from that promise in the space of a couple of weeks.