箸の上げ下ろしにも文句を言う(hashi no ageoroshi ni mo monku o iu): “to complain about [how someone] raises and lowers their chopsticks” → to be extremelyfastidious andnitpicky
Compound of上げ(age,“raising, lifting up”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb上げるageru, “to raise something, to lift something up”) +下だし(kudashi,“putting something down; passing something through one's gut”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb下すkudasu, “to put something down; to pass something through one's gut”).[1][2]
Compound of上げ(age,“raising, lifting up”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb上げるageru, “to raise something, to lift something up”) +下げ(sage,“lowering something, hanging something down”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb下げるsageru, “to lower something, to hang something down”).[1][2]
上下の合方(ueshita no aikata): “up and down accompaniment [music]” → a kind of music played duringkabuki performances, where one person playssamisen, another sings the low part, and another sings the high part
Compound of上り(kari,“rising in tone”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb上るkaru, “to rise in tone”) +下り(meri,“falling in tone”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb下るmeru, “to fall in tone”).[1]
FromMiddle Chinese compound上下(dzyangH hæX, literally“up and down”). Compare modernCantonese readingsoeng6 haa6,Hakkasong-ha, orMin Nan alternative readingchiūⁿ hā.
上下付け(jōgezuke),上下付(jōgezuke): a kind of poetry game where either the first and last lines of ahaiku are provided and the players must invent an appropriate middle line, or the first two kana are provided and the players must also use these as the last two kana, and invent an appropriate middle
Compound of上ぼり(nobori,“climbing, going up”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb上るnoboru, “to climb, to go up”) +下り(ori,“descending, going down”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb下りるoriru, “to descend, to go down”).[1][2]
Compound of上ぼり(nobori,“climbing, going up”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb上るnoboru, “to climb, to go up”) +下り(kudari,“descending, coming down”,the連用形(ren'yōkei,“continuative or stem form”) of verb下るkudaru, “to descend a path, to come down a path”).[1][2]
climbing up andclimbing down(particularly as of a person or path travelling or moving up and down, such as a road going uphill and downhill in the mountains)
goingupstream anddownstream(such as on a river, or on a highway with “up” indicating towards a city)
