内行看门道,外行看热闹 (內行看門道,外行看熱鬧)
nèi háng kàn mén dao , wài háng kàn rè nao
Pinyin
Definition
内行看门道,外行看热闹 (內行看門道,外行看熱鬧)
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- while the connoisseur recognizes the artistry, the layman simply enjoys the show
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 good-looking
- 2 nice-looking
- 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
- 4 embarrassed
- 5 humiliated
- 1 to look over
- 2 to examine
- 3 to check up
- 4 to ferret out
- 1 to look after
- 2 to take care of
- 3 to watch
- 4 to guard
- 1 to take a look at
- 2 to examine
- 3 to survey
- 4 (coll.) pretty soon
- 1 to know
- 2 to become aware of
- 3 also pr. [zhī dao]
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)