押おっ取とり刀がたな

noun

rushing off in a flurry; scurrying unprepared

Describes hurrying somewhere in a fluster, often because one was caught off guard. The literal image is grabbing a sword and dashing out without properly securing it.

• 火か事じの知しらせを聞きいて、彼かれは押おっ取とり刀がたなで現げん場ばに向むかった。

  Hearing the fire alarm, he rushed to the scene in a flurry.

noun

rushing to an emergency with sword in hand

Literal historical sense: dashing out with one's sword drawn because there was no time to fix it at the waist. Rarely used outside historical or explanatory contexts.

• 「押おっ取とり刀がたな」は、もともと刀かたなを腰こしに差さす間まもなく手てに持もって駆かけつけることを指さした。

  Originally, 押っ取り刀 referred to rushing to an emergency with one's sword in hand, without time to affix it at the waist.