大老粗
dà lǎo cū
Pinyin

Definition

大老粗
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dà lǎo cū
  1. uncouth fellow
  2. rustic

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award
大话骰
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)

Idioms (20)

一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥
yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu
  1. 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤
yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng
  1. 1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture

Sample Sentences

好是好，但是农村毕竟差。而且中国农民的文化素质还是普遍偏低，说不好听就是大老粗。外国农民可不一样。
hǎo shì hǎo ，dànshì nóngcūn bìjìng chà 。érqiě Zhōngguó nóngmín de wénhuà sùzhì hái shì pǔbiàn piān dī ，shuō bù hǎotīng jiùshì dàlǎocū 。wàiguó nóngmín kě bù yīyàng 。
That's all well and good, but the villages are still in pretty bad shape. And the cultural level of Chinese peasants is universally on the low side. Not to put too fine a point on it, they're rednecks. Foreign farmers are different.
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