盲点
もうてん
blind spot (of the eye, or in one's thinking or a system)
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Examples
そこが盲点だった。
そこがもうてんだった。
That was the blind spot — I never thought of it.
制度の盲点を突かれた形だ。
せいどのもうてんをつかれたかたちだ。
It amounts to someone exploiting a loophole in the system.
経験を積んだ人ほど、かえって初歩的なところに盲点が生じやすい。
けいけんをつんだひとほど、かえってしょほてきなところにもうてんがしょうじやすい。
The more experience someone has, the more likely they are to have a blind spot in the basics.
Common patterns
- 盲点を突く
- to exploit a blind spot or loophole
- 盲点だった
- that never occurred to me
- 法の盲点
- a loophole in the law
Memory tip
Borrowed from the anatomical blind spot of the retina into everyday use for the thing everyone overlooked. 盲点を突く is about clever exploitation; 弱点 is a weakness you already know you have.
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