決きまり文もん句く

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Meanings

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noun

set phrase; stock phrase; cliché

Refers to a fixed, conventional expression often used in specific situations, sometimes with a negative nuance of being overused or unoriginal.

彼かれのスピーチは決きまり文もん句くばかりで、あまり心こころに響ひびかなかった。
His speech was full of clichés and didn't really resonate.

お悔くやみの手て紙がみには、よく決きまり文もん句くが使つかわれる。

Set phrases are often used in condolence letters.

Written forms

決きまり文もん句く
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency news and common usage.
決きまり文もん句く
Less common variant with 決り instead of 決まり.
きまり文もん句く
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; sometimes used for readability.

Kanji

決decide, fix, agree upon
文sentence, literature, style
句phrase, clause, sentence

Similar words

常じょう套とう句く
Similar to 決まり文句, but 常套句 often implies a more hackneyed or trite expression, while 決まり文句 can simply mean a conventional phrase.
慣かん用よう句く
慣用句 refers to idiomatic phrases whose meaning cannot be deduced from the individual words, whereas 決まり文句 is a fixed expression whose meaning is usually literal.

Etymology

Compound of 決まり (fixed, decided) and 文句 (phrase, wording). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination naturally yields the meaning of a set or conventional phrase.