糸を引く

いとをひくitoohiku

expression · godan verb

  1. to pull (the puppet) strings
  2. to direct things from behind the scenes
  3. to stretch out (and keep going)
  4. to linger on

Kanji in this word

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences