うさぎ小ご屋や

noun

rabbit hutch

Literal meaning: a small enclosure for keeping rabbits.

• 庭にわにうさぎ小屋ごやを作つくった。

  I built a rabbit hutch in the garden.

noun

cramped Japanese housing; tiny houses

Figurative, often derogatory, referring to small, cramped Japanese houses, likened to rabbit hutches. Originated from a 1979 EC report.

• 日本にほんの住じゅう宅たくはうさぎ小屋ごやだとよく言いわれる。

  Japanese houses are often called rabbit hutches.