叶公好龙 (葉公好龍)
Yè Gōng hào lóng
Pinyin
Definition
叶公好龙 (葉公好龍)
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- lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom)
- fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it
- ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 good
- 2 well
- 3 proper
- 4 good to
- 5 easy to
- 6 very
- 7 so
- 8 (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
- 9 (of two people) close
- 10 on intimate terms
- 11 (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 1 good-looking
- 2 nice-looking
- 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
- 4 embarrassed
- 5 humiliated
- 1 hello
- 2 hi
- 1 public
- 2 collectively owned
- 3 common
- 4 international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar)
- 5 make public
- 6 fair
- 7 just
- 8 Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
- 9 honorable (gentlemen)
- 10 father-in-law
- 11 male (animal)
- 1 princess
Idioms (20)
不问好歹
- 1 no matter what may happen (idiom)
不知好歹
- 1 unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)
- 2 not to know what's good for one
- 3 unable to recognize others' good intentions
不识好歹
- 1 unable to tell good from bad (idiom)
- 2 undiscriminating
假公济私
- 1 official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
做好做歹
- 1 to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn