Muromachi
/ˌmʊərəʊˈmatʃi/noun
The period of Japanese history during which the Ashikaga shoguns ruled the empire, from approximately the 14th to the 16th cent. Chiefly attributive, especially in Muromachi period (also called Ashikaga period), Muromachi shogunate.
- Dates for the Muromachi period vary widely between authorities..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Wiliam George Aston (1841–1911), diplomatist and Japanese and Korean scholar. From Muromachi, the name of the district in north-western Kyoto from which the Ashikaga shoguns ruled.
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out
- get out of
- get out of bed on the wrong side (or get up on the wrong side of the bed)
- (get) out of my sight!
- get out of someone's face
- get outside of
- get over