猫ねこ騙だまし

noun

nekodamashi; hand-clapping feint in sumo

A sumo technique where a wrestler claps his hands in front of the opponent's face at the initial charge to startle and distract him. The term is also used figuratively for a sudden distracting action.

• 立たち合あいで猫ねこ騙だましを使つかう力りき士しもいる。

  Some sumo wrestlers use the nekodamashi at the initial charge.

• 彼かれは猫ねこ騙だましで相あい手てのリズムを崩くずした。

  He disrupted his opponent's rhythm with a nekodamashi.