找借口
zhǎo jiè kǒu
Pinyin

Definition

找借口
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zhǎo jiè kǒu
  1. to look for a pretext

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

kǒu
  1. 1 mouth
  2. 2 classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
  3. 3 classifier for bites or mouthfuls
xún zhǎo
  1. 1 to seek
  2. 2 to look for
zhǎo
  1. 1 to try to find
  2. 2 to look for
  3. 3 to call on sb
  4. 4 to find
  5. 5 to seek
  6. 6 to return
  7. 7 to give change
zhǎo dào
  1. 1 to find
yī kǒu qì
  1. 1 one breath
  2. 2 in one breath
  3. 3 at a stretch

Idioms (20)

三缄其口
sān jiān qí kǒu
  1. 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
  2. 2 tight-lipped
不蒸馒头争口气
bù zhēng mán tou zhēng kǒu qì
  1. 1 not to be crushed (idiom)
  2. 2 to be determined to have one's revenge
交口称誉
jiāo kǒu chēng yù
  1. 1 voices unanimous in praise (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
以免借口
yǐ miǎn jiè kǒu
  1. 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
佛口蛇心
fó kǒu shé xīn
  1. 1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced
  2. 2 malicious and duplicitous