殺し文句

Reading

Kana: ころしもんく

Romaji: koroshimonku

Definition

exp

noun

1

clincher; pick-up line; honeyed phrase; telling phrase; phrase that brings someone around, esp. in personal relationships

See also: 口説き文句 (reading くどきもんく)

Kanji

殺

Readings: サツ、 サイ、 セツ、 ころ.す、 -ごろ.し、 そ.ぐ

Meanings: kill, murder, butcher, slice off, split, diminish, reduce, spoil

文

Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや

Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

句

Reading: ク

Meanings: phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku