Kagami wa koi 鑑は濃い

[nedkelly]

I came across this phrase in a novel I am reading (slowly): 鑑は濃い. Can someone explain it to me? I cannot find it in my dictionaries. This is the sentence in which it occurs:
死体遺棄の事件については、その地域課長の鑑は濃い。
This is spoken by a detective in relation to a murder mystery.

 

[mdchachi]

I came across this phrase in a novel I am reading (slowly): 鑑は濃い. Can someone explain it to me? I cannot find it in my dictionaries. This is the sentence in which it occurs:
死体遺棄の事件については、その地域課長の鑑は濃い。
This is spoken by a detective in relation to a murder mystery.

You need a better dictionary.
鑑 => 鑑; 鑒(rK) 【かがみ】(n ) model; pattern; paragon; exemplar
濃い => 濃い 【こい】 (adj-i) (1) deep (colour); dark; (adj-i) (2) strong (flavour, smell, etc.); (adj-i) (3) thick (consistency); dense; (adj-i) (4) strong (possibility, etc.); (adj-i) (5) thick (i.e. "as thick as thieves"); close; deep (love, etc.);

So I guess it means the chief's idea is a strong (ie has a lot of merit).

 

[Toritoribe]

I came across this phrase in a novel I am reading (slowly): 鑑は濃い. Can someone explain it to me? I cannot find it in my dictionaries. This is the sentence in which it occurs:
死体遺棄の事件については、その地域課長の鑑は濃い。
This is spoken by a detective in relation to a murder mystery.

I've never heard it. Google search results say that it's a police slang, meaning "to have a close relationship with/much knowledge of a location". Incidentally, the reading of 鑑 is かん, not かがみ.

犯人と被害者又は犯行地（被害地）との関係が密接な場合を「鑑が濃い」といい，一方で，その関係があまり密接でない場合を「鑑が薄い」という。

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[nedkelly]

Thank you to you both. That makes sense if it is police slang. Yes, I understand that 鑑 is normally "kan" but I thought that in this phrase it would be read "kagami". Jisho.org gives them as the on and kun pronunciations.
Mdchachi, what dictionary do you use?

 

[mdchachi]

Mdchachi, what dictionary do you use?

EDICT via the wwwjdic web interface. WWWJDIC: Word Search

 

[nedkelly]

Thank you.