找借口
zhǎo jiè kǒu
Pinyin
Definition
找借口
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- to look for a pretext
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 mouth
- 2 classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
- 3 classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- 1 to seek
- 2 to look for
- 1 to try to find
- 2 to look for
- 3 to call on sb
- 4 to find
- 5 to seek
- 6 to return
- 7 to give change
- 1 to find
- 1 one breath
- 2 in one breath
- 3 at a stretch
Idioms (20)
三缄其口
- 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
- 2 tight-lipped
不蒸馒头争口气
- 1 not to be crushed (idiom)
- 2 to be determined to have one's revenge
交口称誉
- 1 voices unanimous in praise (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
以免借口
- 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
佛口蛇心
- 1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced
- 2 malicious and duplicitous