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門前 もんぜん

  1. before the gate; in front of the gate

門前 メンゼン

  1. not having called any tiles; one's hand being completely concealed

門前払い もんぜんばらい

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

門前の小僧 もんぜんのこぞう

  1. a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught); you learn, without realising it, from what is around you

門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ

  1. a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught; you learn, without realising it, from what is around you

門前市をなす もんぜんいちをなす

  1. to be prosperous (of a shop); to have many visitors (of a home)

門前成市 もんぜんせいし

  1. being thronged with callers; having a constant stream of visitors

門前清 メンゼンチン

  1. not having called any tiles; one's hand being completely concealed

門前清自摸和 メンゼンチンツモホー

  1. winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles

門前町 もんぜんまち

  1. town originally built around a temple or shrine
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