もっと単刀直入に言ってくれないかな。隔靴掻痒の感なきにしもあらずだよ。

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English Translation

You don't have to leave me hanging like this. Why don't you just come out and tell it to me straight?

Furigana

もっと単刀直入(たんとうちょくにゅう)に言(い)ってくれないかな。隔靴掻痒(かっかそうよう)の感(かん)なきにしもあらずだよ。

Romanji

Motto tantōchokunyū ni ittekurenai ka na. kakkasōyō no kan naki nishi mo arazu da yo.

Words

もっと (もっと)

(some) more; even more; longer; further

単刀直入 (たんとうちょくにゅう)

going right to the point; point-blank; without beating about the bush; frankness

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

言う (いう、ゆう)

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

な (な)

(sentence end, mainly masc.) indicates emotion or emphasis; (used with masu stem verb) command; (used with dictionary form verb) prohibition

隔靴掻痒 (かっかそうよう)

being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

感 (かん)

feeling; sensation; emotion; admiration; impression

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

螺 (にし、ニシ)

small spiral-shelled snail

も (も)

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence); both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence); even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than; even if; even though; although; in spite of; further; more; again; another; the other

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

よ (よ)

indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.; used when calling out to someone; used to catch one's breath or get someone's attention; yo!