手が出る

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手(て)が出(で)る • (te ga deru) ichidan (stem 手(て)が出(で) (te ga de), past 手(て)が出(で)た (te ga deta))

1. (chiefly in the negative) to be able to take action; to be capable of achieving a goal or solving a problem

   パソコンはなかなか手(て)が出(で)ない。

   Pasokon wa nakanaka te ga denai.

   They can hardly afford to buy personal computers.

2. to use violence
   • 2015, 片田珠美, 他人を攻撃せずにはいられない人, →ISBN, page 10:

     手(て)が出(で)る人(ひと)というのは、見方(みかた)によっては「気(き)の毒(どく)な人(ひと)」だともいえます。

     Te ga deru hito to iu no wa, mikata ni yotte wa “kinodoku na hito” da to mo iemasu.

     A violent person, in a sense is also a miserable person.

• This phrase has a syntactical subject 手. Thus the semantic subject is usually indefinite or implied. Otherwise, the semantic subject can be introduced as an absolute topic with は/も, or as the possessor of the syntactical subject with の. Also, the subject marker が may be omitted, giving 手出る, or when the phrase is used attributively, may be replaced by の, giving 手の出る.

• 手(て)も足(あし)も出(で)ない (te mo ashi mo denai)