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行き成り

いきなり

suddenly; all at once; without warning; right off the bat

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Examples

  1. そのタクシーは行き成り左に曲がった。

    そのタクシーはいきなりひだりにまがった。

    The taxi turned left without warning.

  2. 彼は行き成り立ち上がって部屋を出て行った。

    かれはいきなりたちあがってへやをでていった。

    He suddenly stood up and walked out of the room.

  3. 初対面で行き成り年収を聞かれて、返事に困った。

    しょたいめんでいきなりねんしゅうをきかれて、へんじにこまった。

    Being asked my salary right off the bat on a first meeting, I didn't know how to reply.

Common patterns

行き成り言う
to say out of nowhere
行き成り本題に入る
to launch straight into the main point
行き成り怒り出す
to fly into a rage without warning

Memory tip

Normally written いきなり in kana; 行き成り is the kanji spelling you may see in older text. Unlike 突然, it stresses that the expected preliminaries were skipped, so it is the word for doing something without the usual build-up — 行き成り本番, going straight to the real thing.

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