KOKKI-RI こっきり
Meanings
It is attached to a numeral or a word expressing frequency to indicate that a thing ends with that and is not followed by anything else.
Examples
・My brother would only let me play one game at a time.
兄は私にゲームを１回こっきりしかやらせてくれなかった。
・I was only invited to one meeting after all.
私が会合に呼ばれたのは、結局１回こっきりであった。
Dogmatic Opinion
Basically, a very small number and set, as in “one time “Kokkiri”.
When I say that the rest doesn’t last,
I don’t mean that it happens 10,000 times “Kokkiri”.
We regret that it has been done so few times and there is no continuation.
I don’t say, “That was the one and only time(Kokkiri) I had dinner with someone I didn’t like.”
Proximate Expression
only
