縄なわ

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈物もの〉を縄なわで縛しばるto tie something up with rope

  荷に物もつを縄なわで縛しばってトラックに積つんだ。

  We tied up the luggage with rope and loaded it onto the truck.

• お縄なわになるto be arrested (idiomatic, from being bound with rope)

  犯はん人にんはついにお縄なわになった。

  The criminal was finally arrested.

• 縄なわを張はるto stretch a rope (e.g. to mark off an area)

  工こう事じ現げん場ばの周まわりに縄なわを張はって立たち入いり禁きん止しにした。

  They put up a rope around the construction site to keep people out.

Expressions

• 縄なわを掛かけるbind with rope; arrest; seize · bind with rope
• 一ひと筋すじ縄なわでいかないnot straightforward; hard to manage; tricky
• 一ひと筋すじ縄なわではいかないnot straightforward; hard to manage; tricky
• 泥どろ棒ぼうを捕とらえて縄なわを綯なうstarting something too late; acting after the fact; closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
• 禍福かふくは糾あざなえる縄なわの如ごとしfortune and misfortune are intertwined; good and bad luck alternate
• 蛇へびに噛かまれて朽くち縄なわに怖おじるonce bitten, twice shy