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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)
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