門前払い

もんぜんばらい

turning someone away (at the front door)

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Meanings

also 門前払

  1. noun, takes する, transitive turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; shutting the door in someone's face; refusal of admission
  2. noun rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation
  3. historical being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)

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