門前雀羅を張る

もんぜんじゃくらをはる

to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate

雀羅

じゃくら

sparrow net

門前

メンゼン もんぜん

before a gate

前門

ぜんもん

front gate

婆羅門

ばらもん バラモン ブラーマン

Brahman (priest of Hinduism, members of the highest caste)

羅生門

らしょうもん

Rashōmon (gate in old Kyoto)

門前町

もんぜんまち もんぜんちょう もんぜまち

town originally built around a temple or shrine

門前清

メンゼンチン

not having called any tiles

寸門多羅

すもたら

incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from Sumatra)

門前払い

もんぜんばらい

turning another away at the gate or front door, refusing to receive a caller

門前薬局

もんぜんやっきょく

pharmacy right outside a doctor's office or hospital

門前成市

もんぜんせいし

having a constant stream of visitors, being thronged with callers

雀

すずめ スズメ

tree sparrow (Passer montanus)

門前の小僧

もんぜんのこぞう

you learn, without realising it, from what is around you, a young monk outside the gate (can read sutras he has never studied)

前門の虎後門の狼

ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ

between the devil and the deep sea, out of the frying pan into the fire

後門の虎前門の狼

こうもんのとらぜんもんのおおかみ

between the devil and the deep sea, out of the frying pan into the fire

門前市をなす

もんぜんいちをなす

to have many visitors (of a home), to be prosperous (of a shop)

門前清自摸和

メンゼンチンツモホー

winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles

群雀

むらすずめ

flock of sparrows