KT26 Word Line
こんりんざい
金輪際
Konrinzai
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Meaning
never, ever
A word followed by a negative to declare strongly that something will absolutely never happen.
Example
あの店には金輪際行かない。
I am never going to that restaurant again.
Origin
In Buddhist cosmology, the earth is said to rest on three layers: the wind wheel, the water wheel and the metal wheel (konrin). The boundary between the metal wheel and the water wheel is konrinzai, the very bottom of the earth. From this came the senses "thoroughly" and "to the very end." In the Edo period it was also used without a negative, but today it almost always appears in the form konrinzai ... shinai (will never ...).