だし

noun

dashi; Japanese soup stock

Fundamental Japanese cooking stock, typically made from kombu (kelp) and katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes), or other ingredients like niboshi (dried sardines) or shiitake mushrooms.

• 味み噌そ汁しるを作つくる前まえに、まずだしを取とります。

  Before making miso soup, I first make the dashi stock.

• この料りょう理りはだしが決きめ手てです。

  The dashi is the key to this dish.

noun

pretext; excuse; front

Only when written 出し · Only with reading ダシ

Used in the phrase 出しにする meaning to use someone or something as a pretext, excuse, or front. The person or thing is a means to an end, often deceptive.

See also: 出しにする

• 彼かれは私わたしを出だしにして、上じょう司しに取とり入いろうとした。

  He tried to use me as a pretext to get in good with the boss.

• 慈じ善ぜん団だん体たいを出だしにして金かねを集あつめていた。

  They were collecting money using the charity as a front.