冠冕堂皇
guān miǎn táng huáng
Pinyin
Definition
冠冕堂皇
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- high-sounding
- dignified
- pompous (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
仓皇出逃
- 1 to run off in a great panic (idiom)
冠冕堂皇
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)
升堂入室
- 1 lit. to reach the main room and enter the chamber (idiom)
- 2 fig. to gradually attain proficiency
- 3 to attain a higher level
吃饭皇帝大
- 1 eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)