一石二鳥

いっせきにちょう

killing two birds with one stone

Common word

Meanings

  1. Expression

    killing two birds with one stoneFour-character idiom

Example sentences

  • 一石二鳥いっせきにちょうにする。

    Kill two birds with one stone.

  • その提案ていあん一石二鳥いっせきにちょうを狙ねらったものだろうけど、「虻蜂あぶはちとらず」にならなければいいけどね。

    That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.

  • 一石二鳥いっせきにちょう

    I killed two birds with one stone.

  • 一石二鳥いっせきにちょう。

    To kill two birds with one stone.