KY06 Idiom Line
はんじょうをいれる
半畳を入れる
Hanjōoireru
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Meaning
to heckle
To call out jeers or mocking remarks from the side at what someone is saying or doing.
Example
発表の最中に、後ろから半畳を入れる人がいた。
During the presentation, someone at the back kept heckling.
Origin
A hanjō (half mat) was a small one-person mat that spectators in the pit (doma) of Edo-period playhouses sat on. When they did not like an actor's performance, they threw it onto the stage to show their displeasure. From this it came to mean criticizing or making fun of what others say or do. Also hanjō wo uchikomu or hanjō wo iu.