小巫见大巫 (小巫見大巫)
xiǎo wū jiàn dà wū
Pinyin

Definition

小巫见大巫 (小巫見大巫)
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xiǎo wū jiàn dà wū
  1. lit. minor magician in the presence of a great one (idiom)
  2. fig. to pale into insignificance by comparison

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)

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
不拘小节
bù jū xiǎo jié
  1. 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
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
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
以小人之心，度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)

Sample Sentences

怎么连这点常识都没有！不过我最近看了好多更傻的人的视频。跟他们比，法国人可是小巫见大巫。
zěnme lián zhèdiǎn chángshí dōu méiyǒu ！bùguò wǒ zuìjìn kàn le hǎo duō gèng shǎ de rén de shìpín 。gēn tāmen bǐ ，fǎguórén kěshì xiǎowū jiàn dàwū 。
How can someone be lacking even this bit of common sense? But lately I've seen a lot of videos of even stupider people. Compared to them, the French are pupils in the presence of a master.
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以前觉得作弊都够大胆的了，比起这个，还真是小巫见大巫了。话说，”枪手“都是些什么人啊？
yǐqián juéde zuòbì dōu gòu dàdǎn de le ，bǐqǐ zhège ，hái zhēn shì xiǎowū jiàn dàwū le 。huà shuō ，”qiāngshǒu “dōu shì xiē shénme rén ā ？
I used to feel that those who cheat are daring enough, but in comparison with this they really pale into insignificance. Speaking of which, what kind of people are these "surrogate exam-takers"?
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