1ミリ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
一ミリ

Etymology

From 1(いち) (ichi, “one”) + ミリ (miri), clipping of ミリメートル (“millimeter”). Attested from the 2010s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [it͡ɕimʲiɾʲi]

Noun

1(いち)ミリ • (ichi-miri) 

1. (informal, chiefly in the negative) the slightest amount (in reference to one's knowledge, thought, etc.)

   1(いち)ミリも思(おも)いつかない

   ichi-miri mo omoitsukanai

   never would have thought of even the slightest amount of it

   • 2021 May 19, “1.5 oku en sōkin no kanyo o hitei, Nikai, Amari-shi [Nikai, Amari deny involvement in 150 million yen remittance]”, in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, page 38:

     [二(に)階(かい)俊博(としひろ)は]河(かわ)井(い)案(あん)里(り)元(もと)参(さん)院(いん)議(ぎ)員(いん)陣(じん)営(ねい)に対(たい)する党(とう)本(ほん)部(ぶ)からの１(いち)億(おく)５(ご)千(せん)万(まん)円(えん)の送(そう)金(きん)に関(かん)し、関(かん)与(よ)を重(かさ)ねて否(ひ)定(てい)した。当(とう)時(じ)、選(せん)対(たい)委(い)員(いん)長(ちょう)だった甘(あま)利(り)明(あきら)税(ぜい)制(せい)調(ちょう)査(さ)会(かい)長(ちょう)も国(こっ)会(かい)内(ない)で記(き)者(しゃ)団(だん)に「１(いち)ミリも関(かん)与(よ)しておらず、全(まった)く承(しょう)知(ち)していない」と強(きょう)調(ちょう)した。

     [Nikai Toshihiro wa] Kawai Anri moto San'in gīn jinnei ni taisuru tō honbu kara no ichioku gosenman en no sōkin ni kanshi, kan'yo o kasanete hitei shita. Tōji, sentai īnchō datta Amari Akira zeisei chōsa kaichō mo Kokkai nai de kishadan ni “ichi-miri mo kan'yo shiteorazu, mattaku shōchi shiteinai” to kyōchō shita.

     [Toshihiro Nikai] repeatedly denied any involvement in the remittance of 150 million yen from the party headquarters to former Upper House member Anri Kawai. Akira Amari, then chairman of the election campaign committee and chairman of the tax system research committee, also stressed to reporters in the Diet that he was “without one millimeter of participation, completely unaware.”

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 一,‎ ミリ.

Derived terms

• 1(いち)ミリも知(し)らない (ichi-miri mo shiranai, “completely ignorant”)