食べ物に当たる

• 読み: たべものにあたる
• ローマ字: tabemono ni ataru
• 漢字の分解: 食 (shoku/ta) — eat, food; 物 (butsu/mono) — thing; 当 (tou/a) — hit, strike
• 発音: /ta.be.mo.no.ni.a.ta.ɾɯ/

意味

To get food poisoning. To become ill from eating contaminated or spoiled food.

A phrase using the verb 当たる (ataru) in its 'to be struck/affected' sense. The full expression means being negatively affected by food — getting food poisoning. Can be shortened to just 当たる when the food context is clear, as in 牡蠣に当たった (kaki ni atatta, got sick from oysters). Distinct from the standard meaning of 当たる (to hit, to win, to be correct).

例文

1. 昨日の刺身で食べ物に当たったかもしれない。
2. 夏場は食べ物に当たりやすいから注意が必要だ。
3. 旅行先で食べ物に当たって一日中寝込んでいた。

使い方ガイド

場面: health, food, travel

トーン: cautionary

起源と歴史

From native Japanese 当たる (ataru, to strike/hit). The metaphor is of being 'struck' or 'hit' by bad food — the food attacks the body.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal