偷偷摸摸
tōu tōu mō mō
Pinyin

Definition

偷偷摸摸
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tōu tōu mō mō
  1. surreptitious
  2. sneaky

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

偷
tōu
  1. 1 to steal
  2. 2 to pilfer
  3. 3 to snatch
  4. 4 thief
  5. 5 stealthily
偷偷
tōu tōu
  1. 1 stealthily
  2. 2 secretly
  3. 3 covertly
  4. 4 furtively
  5. 5 on the sly
偷笑
tōu xiào
  1. 1 to laugh up one's sleeve
摸
mō
  1. 1 to feel with the hand
  2. 2 to touch
  3. 3 to stroke
  4. 4 to grope
  5. 5 to steal
  6. 6 to abstract
偷吃
tōu chī
  1. 1 to eat on the sly
  2. 2 to pilfer food
  3. 3 to be unfaithful

Idioms (19)

丈二和尚，摸不着头脑
zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎo
  1. 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. at a total loss
偷天换日
tōu tiān huàn rì
  1. 1 to engage in fraudulent activities (idiom)
  2. 2 skulduggery
  3. 3 to hoodwink people
  4. 4 to cheat sb audaciously
偷工减料
tōu gōng jiǎn liào
  1. 1 to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)
  2. 2 jerry-building
  3. 3 sloppy work
偷梁换柱
tōu liáng huàn zhù
  1. 1 lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column
  2. 2 to replace the original with a fake
  3. 3 to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
偷鸡不成蚀把米
tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ
  1. 1 lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off
  3. 3 to go for wool and come back shorn

Sample Sentences

偷偷摸摸的事情
tōutōumōmō de shìqing
A sneaky affair.
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那谈恋爱的时候岂不是要偷偷摸摸，躲躲藏藏的？
nà tánliàn'ài de shíhou qǐbùshì yào tōutōumōmō ，duǒduǒcángcáng de ？
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其实非典以后，人们都谈虎色变，野味市场受到很大冲击。以前广东野味饭店遍地开花。这次我去，饭店是偷偷摸摸卖给我们的。而且，现在广东人的饮食观念也有了很大的转变。好多人也觉得吃野味是非法，非人道，而且不健康的行为，并不像以前那样盲目地认为吃野味很补。
qíshí fēidiǎn yǐhòu ，rénmen dōu tánhǔsèbiàn ，yěwèi shìchǎng shòudào hěn dà chōngjī 。yǐqián Guǎngdōng wèi fàndiàn biàndìkāihuā 。zhècì wǒ qù ，fàndiàn shì tōutōumōmō mài gěi wǒmen de 。érqiě ，xiànzài guǎngdōngrén de yǐnshí guānniàn yě yǒu le hěn dà de zhuǎnbiàn 。hǎo duō rén yě juéde chī yěwèi shì fēifǎ ，fēi réndào ，érqiě bù jiànkāng de xíngwéi ，bìngbù xiàng yǐqián nàyàng mángmù de rènwéi chī yěwèi hěn bǔ 。
Actually, after SARS, people were really skittish about this stuff, and the market for game was badly affected. It used to be that game restaurants were all over in Guangdong. On this visit, the restaurant sneakily sold the stuff to us. And what's more, Cantonese people's ideas about their diet have really changed a lot. A lot of people think that eating game is illegal, inhumane and unhealthy. It's not at all like in the past, where people blindly assumed that eating game was very nutritious.
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