The Vocabulary of Being Seen

Sekentei (世間体): appearances before society. The Daijisen dictionary gives the example sekentei ga warui, it looks bad to people. Fugen jikkō (不言実行): to do what must be done without saying so. Yūgen jikkō (有言実行): to achieve without fail what one has said. The second phrase was made as a play on the first.

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