Example sentences
Formation
(i) Direct Quotation | とばかりに | |
「それ!」とばかりに | As if to say, “there you go!” | |
(ii) Indirect Quotation | とばかりに | |
そうはさせないとばかりに | As if so to say that someone wouldn’t let someone do that | |
(iii) Noun | とばかりに | |
チャンスとばかりに | As if someone had decided that this were someone’s great opportunity |