1.
double-talk; duplicity; speaking with a forked tongue
Saying contradictory things to different people, or contradicting one's own earlier words; deceitful, two-faced speech.
彼は二枚舌だ。
He's two-faced.
二枚舌を使う人は信用できない。
You can't trust someone who talks out of both sides of their mouth.
相手によって言うことを変える二枚舌な態度に腹が立った。
I was angry at his two-faced way of changing what he said depending on the listener.
Literally 'two tongues.' Almost always used with 使う in the set phrase 二枚舌を使う (to engage in double-talk).
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 二枚舌を使う: to say two different things; to be deceitful
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 裏表がある: to be two-faced — having a hidden side different from the public one
- うそつき: a liar — the plain word for someone who tells untruths