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もんぜんばらい
門前払い
表記・読み:門前払・もんぜんばらい
- 1
turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; shutting the door in someone's face; refusal of admission
- 2
rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation
- 3
being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)