あの家は女房が亭主をしりに敷いている。

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あの家は女房が亭主をしりに敷いている。

English Translation

She wears the trousers in that house.

Furigana

あの家(いえ)は女房(にょうぼう)が亭主(ていしゅ)をしりに敷(し)いている。

Romanji

Ano ie wa nyōbō ga teishu o shiri ni shiiteiru.

Words

彼の (あの、かの)

that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)

家 (いえ)

house; residence; dwelling; family; household; lineage; family name

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

女房 (にょうぼう、にょうぼ、にゅうぼう)

wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace; woman (esp. as a love interest)

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

亭主 (ていしゅ)

household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); innkeeper; owner (e.g. of an hotel); husband

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

私利 (しり)

personal profit; self interest

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

敷く (しく)

to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)