切り出す

きりだす

Meanings

1. Godan verb, Transitive to quarry; to cut (timber); to cut and carry off (also written as 伐り出す)
2. to begin to talk; to break the ice; to broach
3. to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.) (also written as 鑽り出す)
4. to select and extract (from a media file); to splice out

Kanji

• 切 cut. Read as きり.
• 出 out. Read as だす.

Example sentences

• 挨拶抜きでいきなり用件を切り出す。
  Skip the pleasantries and get down to business.
• Xbox 360については「いいハードです」と開口一番切り出した。
  On the Xbox 360 the very first thing he said was "good hardware."
• トムは彼女に別れ話を切り出した。
  Tom started talking to his girlfriend about breaking up.
• 私たちは別れました。正確に言うと、彼女が別れを切り出した。
  We broke up. To be precise, she broke up with me.

Common phrases

• 別れを切り出す
• 石を切り出す
• 山から切り出す
• 離婚を切り出す
• 話を切り出す (はなしをきりだす) to break the ice
• 木を切り出す
• 部分を切り出す

Words containing 切り出す

• 話を切り出す (はなしをきりだす) to break the ice

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