土ど台だい

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈物もの〉の土ど台だいを築きずくto build the foundation of something

  彼かれらは新あたらしい会かい社しゃの土ど台だいを築きずいた。

  They built the foundation of the new company.

• 土ど台だい無む理りだto be impossible from the very start

  そんな計けい画かくは土ど台だい無む理りだ。

  A plan like that is impossible from the outset.

• 〈事こと〉の土ど台だいとなるto become the basis of something

  その経けい験けんが彼かれの成せい功こうの土ど台だいとなった。

  That experience became the foundation of his success.

• 土ど台だい〈動どう詞し〉ないto fundamentally be unable to do (something), from the start

  そんな量りょうの仕し事ごと、土ど台だい終おわらない。

  There's no way I can finish that much work to begin with.

• 土ど台だいが揺ゆらぐfor the foundation (of something) to be shaken

  不ふ正せいがばれて会かい社しゃの土ど台だいが揺ゆらいだ。

  The company's foundation was shaken when the fraud came to light.